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Teaching the doctrines of the Positive and Negative Mind of God, 

and of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Mediator between the two 

states of Being; revealing how the Truth awakens the 

Soul to its natural inheritance as an immortal 

co-worker with God, giving it dominion 

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FOREWORD 

It as the purpose of this book to heal those 
who read and study its pages. The articles are 
gathered together with that object in view. Each 
one was written under the inspiration of a definite 
purpose — to heal, encourage, and enlighten 
whomsoever should read it — and the multitude 
of letters which have been received shows that the 
purpose has borne fruit, and causes me to rejoice 
in the knowledge that written truth can bear the 
balm of healing to suffering humanity. 

These lessons are the fruit of spiritual realiza- 
tion. The varying forms of expression were 
adapted to the various states of mind I desired to 
arouse. The energies of Omnipotence are latent 
within human minds, and there is no nobler task 
than speaking or writing words that will stir those 
energies and arouse them into activity for the 
healing of God's beloved humanity. 

As all forces, at the last analysis, are of the 
nature of mind, developed or undeveloped, then 
the forces of mind — thoughts — are the proper 
things wherewith to direct the living, healing dy- 
namics within the nature of man. 

Mystical words of mighty healing power have 
been revealed to me, and I have woven many of 
them into these lessons and affirmations. 



vi Foreword 

Where a truth is repeated, I have purposely al- 
lowed the repetition to stand, and I trust that this 
will cause the reader to remember that " Repeti- 
tion is the mother of learning." 

Remember that your ability to gain dominion 
over your physical body will develop as you cul- 
tivate thought power. By constant study of these 
lessons, and persistent use of the thoughts given 
in them, you will gain an ability to heal yourself 
and others, according to the degree of thought 
power you generate. I have known a pupil to 
take a single sentence and hold to it so persistently 
that in the space of one year she had transformed 
a gross, abnormal growth in the interior of the 
body, into normal, healthy substance. She had 
faith in the power of thought to transform the 
body and did not allow laziness of mind to stand 
in the way of its accomplishment. 

" There is no excellence without labor." It is 
not how much you read, or how much you know 
about mental processes that gives you mental 
power, but it is how much you incorporate of the 
positive thought and feeling of Truth into your 
mind and body. 

If you desire to progress in spiritual power you 
will be obliged to build a thought-body out of posi- 
tive thoughts of truth. These lessons will fur- 
nish you with the material for building your 
spiritual temple, through which the healing power 
will become manifest in your flesh, and as you put 
these truths into practice day after day and year 
after year, you will find all negative limitations 



Foreword vii 

vanishing and a positiveness of soul power devel- 
oping which will repay you most wonderfully for 
all your efforts toward the attainment of spiritual 
and physical dominion. Awake, and understand 
your divine possibilities as a soul formed in the 
image and character of the Almighty! Create 
into a powerful thought- or mind-body all the di- 
vine attributes that lie latent within your soul, 
awaiting your recognition and expression, and you 
will attain a consciousness of power that will grow 
and increase throughout all eternity. 

Walter DeVoe. 



ASPIRATION 

I pray to know the charm of mine own tran- 
scendant soul, that it may show forth greater 
power through my personality and enfold all 
mankind in the healing power that will soothe the 
aching hearts of the world. 

When the Master spoke, the charm of his soul 
was the Spirit of his words, and whoever was 
ready for truth, felt his spiritual power and fol- 
lowed him gladly. 

I pray that through the charm exerted by my 
own awakened soul, I may he able to arouse and 
awaken the slumbering soul which is the Self of 
every one. May I realize the power to help each 
Self to manifest its God-likeness in the flesh, and 
thus bring an immortal glory to this world. 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Foreword v 

Knowledge Is Power i 

Thought, the Supreme Remedy ........ 5 

Effects of Mental States 12 

We Grow Like That Which We Study 15 

Man's Relation to the Universal Mind 20 

You Are Power 25 

Positive and Negative Mind 27 

How to Practise Mental Healing . . ... . . 33 

Scientific Confirmation of the Power of Mind ... 44 
Thought Force as a Factor in Muscular Development 45 

Concentration of Mind 46 

How to Concentrate 49 

Wonderful Possibilities 51 

Mental Influence at a Distance 57 

A Remarkable Cure by Suggestion ... . . . . . 59 

I Am All Mind 64 

A General Healing Treatment 68 

Teach Your Body to Think 72 

Use Your Will to Overcome Indigestion 78 

The Subconscious Mind and Soul Consciousness . . . 8i 

Becoming Attuned to the Spirit . . 88 

A Powerful Statement 95 

The Mystery of Omnipotence 100 

Cultivate Your Will 106 

Building the Temple of Faith 108 

Trust in God 112 

The Word of Power 114 

The Healing Power of Jesus Jehovah 123 

Deny the Cause of Disease 125 



Contents 

PAGE 

Deny the Imperfect: Affirm the Perfect .... 126 

Insomnia 133 

Exercise Your Imagination 136 

Nervous Debility 139 

Treatment for Depression 140 

Treatment for Catarrh 143 

Treatment for Vital Center 144 

Treatment for Painful Swellings 145 

Treatment for Constipation 146 

Treatment for Appendicitis . . . . . . . . . 147 

Treatment for Eyes .150 

Treatment for Healing Peace 153 

Mind Masters Matter 155 

The Great Sympathetic 160 

Let Your Soul Express 165 

The True Way 169 

Ye Are Slumbering Gods! 171 

Awake, My Soul, Awake! 175 

Soul Development . 178 

The Globe of Glory 183 

Thus Speaks the Living Soul 190 

How to Realize God . . . . *• 191 

Realization 199 

Do Unto Others as You Would Be Done By ... 201 

Organization 203 

Pray Without Ceasing 210 

A Healing Prayer 219 

To Overcome Antagonism 221 

Healing Love 222 

O Thou Eternal Spirit of Wisdom 223 

The Disciples' Prayer 224 

Serenity 226 

Trust 227 

Gratitude 228 

Peace 229 

A Conception of God 230 

The God-Man 239 



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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER 

The great prayer that is arising from souls in- 
carnate is the prayer for more vitality. It is the 
speechless prayer of the whole world; the un- 
uttered longing and desire of every heart for 
that which will enable it to overcome limitations 
and find satisfaction. 

Scientists of to-day are searching as tirelessly 
for a life-renewing elixir as did Ponce de Leon 
for the fountain of youth, but their stimulants, 
tonics, and serums, will not renew the creative 
impulse of vitality which produced the organism 
and which lies latent within, always ready to revi- 
talize, renew, and heal every part of the physical 
nature. 

It is not medication that will save the sick and 
suffering, but the opening of the human nature 
to this divine influx which is health compelling 
and harmony producing to every nature that finds 
it. Many are becoming conscious that a heavenly, 
healing vitality awaits them, and nothing can hin- 
der their search for the immortal vigor that will 
save their flesh from disease and pain and evolve 
a new type of humanity. They shall become 
fearless and dauntless, healthy and happy in the 



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conscious possession and understanding of the 
vital principle within them, which is the manifes- 
tation of the God-life in humanity. 

Matter and flesh cannot create, because they 
are effects. They can only manifest the energy 
infused into them by their cause. Vitality is not 
a material force; it is spiritual force. Vitality is 
cause. Vitality is the creative energy of the love 
and intelligence of the God-mind which holds 
in its embrace every atom of sentient substance. 

It is the vitality of the infinite Mind that we 
see manifesting in bird and beast, r tree and flower, 
and this same vitality is at this moment giving you 
all the life that you have, and the infinite Mind 
can give you as much as you can individualize and 
express. 

Your lack of knowledge of the possibilities of 
your own nature keeps you from growing out of 
your weak or sickly condition. Knowledge is 
Power. 

All nature is enlivened by the omnipotent vi- 
tality of the infinite Mind, and the human mind 
must seek its vitality from this source, for vitality 
is a mental energy which can be appropriated to an 
unlimited degree. According as it is recognized 
and expressed will it overcome all diseased and 
depleted conditions of the body. 

New ideas entering the mind bring with them 
an influx of vitality. The thoughts in this book 
are overflowing with vitality and health, and the 
more you study them the closer your mind will 
get to the Fountain of Life, which will renew 
your body as your mind is renewed with living 



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thoughts from the Divine Mind. Patients are 
often healed while studying writings which are 
filled with the healing inspiration. If you want 
to live and be healthy you must not think or talk 
about disease or death. Jesus thought and talked 
about life so much that He demonstrated the 
power to overcome death. 

There is a Source of unlimited vitality, 
strength, and energy which has been little looked 
to since the Great Physician walked this earth, 
and from lack of knowledge of this vital impulse 
the race has suffered much. This knowledge was 
crucified, or denied out of mortal understanding, 
but it is again being resurrected in the mind of 
the race. 

The souls of mortals " cannot live by bread 
alone " but must be fed on the manna of Heaven, 
the thoughts that flow out from the Mind of God, 
before there can be such a harmonious union of 
the human and the divine in man as will guarantee 
his health and happiness and prosperity while on 
the earth. 

You, no matter how poor or sick or miserable 
you may be, are living in the midst of Divine 
Forces which can generate a new health and 
strength in your body, weave prosperity and suc- 
cess into your destiny, and make your whole life 
divine and harmonjous. The forces that make 
for success are within reach of every mind, wait- 
ing to be polarized and individualized. 

Intelligent and powerful thought forces inter- 
penetrate space, even as magnetic and electric 
currents flow through space, and these potent 



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forces can control intelligently all the operations 
of natural law; and, still more wonderful to know, 
these forces are obedient to the mind of man, 
ready and powerful to operate everything for his 
good if he will but recognize his God-given domin- 
ion, thinking the thoughts and speaking the words 
which embody his faith in the Almighty Presence 
and cause it to manifest for his benefit. 

Jesus spent much of his time in the wilderness 
on the bosom of God, polarizing by prayer and 
affirmation the power of the Father, which en- 
abled him to overcome mighty difficulties. Mir- 
acles have always followed him who has made his 
life a song of praise to the living God. We may 
have a wonderful mental power, and preach the 
highest truth, but the power that harmonizes and 
heals is ours only when our mind has entered the 
pure ocean of bliss and been magnetized by con- 
tact with the positive pole of Divinity. Then are 
we endowed for the time being with the power of 
the Cause of causes, and all causes obey the one 
who realizes this dominion. Again and again 
must one retire from the world and unite himself 
with the Source of power, for in overcoming the 
conflicting vibrations of the world-mind, the soul 
is constantly in need of the omnipotent Power 
that abides with the Father. 



THOUGHT THE SUPREME REMEDY 

Mental Science has been scorned and ridiculed 
by pulpit and press for many years, but it has 
pushed on in a victorious march against the solid 
mass of the world's ignorance, gaining adherents 
by demonstrating the power of thought to cure 
disease, until to-day it is accorded a place and a 
power in the land as a healing agency with even 
the seal of approval of the United States Supreme 
Court. 

The hundreds of thousands of " incurables " 
who have been cured by the application of the 
principles of Mental Science have had no weight 
as evidence with the scientific world, but the same 
Spirit of Truth that has inspired so many minds 
with the knowledge of the healing power of 
thought has been active in leading scientific inves- 
tigators to the same conclusions, from experimen- 
tal evidence, as the teachers of Mental Science 
reached through intuitive perception. 

Here are a few words from Prof. Elmer Gates, 
formerly of the Smithsonian Institution : 

" I have discovered that bad and unpleasant 
feelings create harmful products in the body, 
which are physically injurious. Good, pleasant, 
benevolent, and cheerful feelings create beneficial 
chemical products which are physically healthful. 
These products may be detected by chemical an- 

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alysis in the perspiration and secretions of the in- 
dividual. I have more than forty of the bad and 
as many of the good. It is found that for each 
bad emotion, there is a corresponding chemical 
change in the tissues of the body which is life-de- 
pressing and poisonous. Contrariwise, every 
good emotion makes a life-promoting change. A 
noble and generous action blesses the doer as well 
as the beneficiary. Every thought which enters 
the mind is registered in the brain by a change in 
the structure of its cells. The change is a phys- 
ical change, more or less permanent." 

Prof. Pawlow, of St. Petersburg, who is the 
greatest living authority on the stomach and its 
work, has demonstrated that mental states aid or 
stop digestion. His experiments with dogs prove 
that thought affects the digestive tract, and gives 
new weight to the words of Solomon: 

" Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, 
Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." 

When some tempting dainty was held before 
a dog and he evinced the usual signs of pleasure 
in the expected treat, it was noted that at once the 
stomach juices sprang into play. On the other 
hand, if he was fed with something which he did 
not like there was no secretion of the gastric fluid. 

This, with further experiments of the same na- 
ture, proved conclusively that mere thought or 
favorable feelings of any sort concerning the food 
eaten, not only assisted the digestion but partly 
caused it. Professor Pawlow, who made the ex- 
periments, thinks this, at least partly, explains 



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why men of letters are often dyspeptic. Their 
minds are busy with things far removed from 
their food when they are eating. The connection 
between the nerve which sends the important mes- 
sage down to the digestive machinery below for 
more oil, and the patient engineer of nutrition, 
is cut off. So when unexpected orders for diges- 
tion come piling in upon them they are not ready 
and the work is bungled. 

One who considers the matter thoughtfully will 
soon realize that thought or feeling has the power 
to cause and also to cure disease. All the secre- 
tions and activities in the body are controlled by 
the sympathetic nervous system, and the quality 
of the feelings that circulate over these nerve 
wires affects every cell in the body. 

Grief or anger will stop the flow of gastric 
fluid. The thought of eating will start the saliva 
to flowing. Lustful thoughts affect the vital or- 
gans in the same way, and when they are habitu- 
ally prevalent in the mind they undermine the very 
foundation of health and happiness. 

All the investigations of the world's wisest 
physicians have not brought to light any truth of 
greater import to the race or of any greater phys- 
iological value than that contained in these words 
of Paul: 

" To be carnally minded is death ; 
But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ,, 

The race is in bondage to lustful thoughts and 
passions, and the feverish fires of false desires 
burn so fiercely in the natures of so many that the 



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spring of heredity is polluted at its source, and 
children are born into the world with carnal pro- 
pensities predominant, unfitted for a healthy, 
moral manhood by a mental and physical nature 
predisposed to all the diseases which spring from 
a scrofulous taint. Lust is the root cause of dis- 
ease and pain in the world, but anger, hatred, re- 
venge, cruelty, and jealousy may be named as do- 
ing very much to create a hell for humanity on the 
earth. Any healing science that does not strive 
to eliminate these forces from the human nature 
or to transform them into divine forces, is incom- 
plete and unsuccessful as a healing agent, because 
these are mental causes of pain and disease, and 
unless they be eradicated, disease cannot be en- 
tirely overcome. 

Dr. W. B. Cannon, of Harvard Medical 
School, has made a long series of interesting ob- 
servations on the relations beween mental states 
and certain bodily functions. 

Observations of the activities of the muscles 
of the stomach and alimentary tract in general 
were made with the aid of the X-ray. It was 
found that when a cat was frightened or enraged 
by the proximity of a dog, the activities of the 
muscles of the alimentary tract, upon which the 
function of digestion so largely depends, were se- 
riously interfered with. The secretion of the di- 
gestive juices was similarly retarded. 

" Thus it is shown," says Dr. Cannon, " how 
profoundly the mental state may affect, favorably 
or unfavorably, the secretions of the stomach, and 
how quickly and directly the mental state may en- 



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tirely check the onward movement of the food. 
So an emotional disturbance affecting the alimen- 
tary canal is capable of starting a vicious circle; 
the stagnant food, unprotected by abundant gas- 
tric juice, naturally undergoes bacterial fermen- 
tation, with the formation of gases and irritant 
decomposition products. These, in turn, may 
produce mild inflammation or be absorbed as sub- 
stances disturbing to metabolism, and thus affect 
the mental state. And the depressed mental state 
that accompanies ' indigestion ' may still further 
prolong the indigestion." 

These experiments demonstrate the importance 
of avoiding the initial states of worry and anxiety, 
and of not permitting grief, anger and other vio- 
lent emotions to prevail. 

Any one who has been in the habit of eating 
meals with the mind concentrated on business 
schemes, or in a state of worry, care, or anger, 
will now understand a possible cause for indiges- 
tion. 

Bright thoughts and harmonious feelings are 
essential to physical health. The pleasurable and 
vigorous activity of all functions and faculties of 
the nature will attune the nature to a realization 
of health that will be positive protection against 
all contagious and infectious diseases. 

The body is a mental organism for the produc- 
tion of the force of thought and feeling, and a cer- 
tain amount of this force is necessary to insure 
the proper action of its organs. The experi- 
ments of Prof. Pawlow prove that thoughtful at- 
tention will aid nature in her processes. 



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Nostalgia, or homesickness, was a frequent 
cause of death among the American soldiers in 
the war with Spain. Young men longed for 
home until their thoughts lived among their 
friends in their distant homes, and in consequence, 
they became sick; all their mental organizing 
power was projected away from the body until 
there remained not enough force to keep the body 
alive. 

There is a power that is ever ready to save hu- 
man kind from the sins and sufferings of igno- 
rance. Divine Thought is the power which will 
heal and harmonize every mind and body that 
comes entirely under its sway and dominion. We 
teach of the Thought of God, which is bringing 
so much happiness and health to the sinful and 
suffering at the present time, and it is our constant 
experience that pure, loving thoughts are charged 
with the healing, invigorating potency of the Spirit 
of God. Every one who will educate his mind to 
conform to divine purity and truth will find the 
power of God which makes for health and happi- 
ness. 

Those who have not seen some wonderful dem- 
onstration in their own lives, or in the life of 
some one very close to them, are liable to become 
discouraged if immediate results do not manifest. 
Remember that all the force of your past thought 
is against your new faith, and that you are just 
beginning to tear down a mental force which runs 
back through heredity for ages, and although the 
Thought of God is all-powerful, your understand- 
ing and exercise of it are to be compared to the 



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efforts of the little child just learning to walk. 
The obstacles the child meets seem as insurmount- 
able to him as yours do to you, but with the same 
persistent effort you will gain control of the 
powers that are latent in your will and thought, 
and will walk upright in dominion as a conquering 
Soul of God. 



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EFFECTS OF MENTAL STATES 

We are mental creatures, and our life is in our 
mind. Our happiness depends upon our state of 
mind. Our physical conditions exhibit our frame 
of mind, and we can progress in life and create 
a proper destiny only as we cultivate the think- 
ing which is common to the Mind of God. 

Mind is positive and negative. Mortal mind 
is negative — undeveloped. The God Mind is 
positive — developed in wisdom. 

Whatever thoughts we listen to or speak, or 
whatever thoughts we allow to remain in our 
minds, will bear fruit. 

Condemnation, envy, prejudice, and all the 
thoughts and words of mortal mind, are nega- 
tive. They are nothing and lead to nothing, 
which is dissolution. The words of truth will 
gain the mastery over all the beliefs and expres- 
sions of error, for these are negative conditions 
which the positive thoughts of truth overcome. 

Beliefs of sin, sickness, and death are also nega- 
tive. We can free ourselves from these thoughts 
by denial of them, and we can place our minds in 
unity with the positive pole of life and peace by 
the affirmation of truth. 

We are one with the almighty goodness of God, 
now. Our minds live in and draw their life from 
the Mind of God, and we can and will grow out 

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of our negative beliefs and conditions by the rec- 
ognition that we are manifestations of the God- 
life. We can think the thoughts of God, and 
thus grow into a conscious knowledge and reali- 
zation of his Presence and Power. 

While we are thinking the thoughts of the 
world, we are living in mental and spiritual dark- 
ness, and in this state of mind we cannot hope to 
enjoy life or peace or prosperity from God, for 
all real enjoyment is in the Light of Truth. An 
abiding satisfaction flows into our minds as we 
charge them with thoughts based on the truth of 
infinite goodness and love. 

We have no power or substance or intelligence 
but God the Good, and this is true of all beings 
and all things. This is the saving truth that 
frees and heals. All life is good and full of heal- 
ing power. 

All intelligence is good, and can manifest per- 
fection. All substances are good, and will reveal 
more and more that they are intelligent as the 
truth about them is recognized. 

Energize these thoughts in your mind by 
repetition : 

I am living the life of eternal peace, for my life 
is one with the life of God, which is peace. 

I desire to think only the thoughts that tend to 
life and peace, thus uniting myself with the divine 
Source of all wisdom and love. 

I know that I am the Mind of Truth express- 
ing, and I think and feel that Almighty Goodness 
now dominates all my world. 



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The Spirit of Goodness is omnipresent. It in- 
cludes all that I need or want. 

I do not place any thoughts or conditions be- 
tween myself and God. 

Every claim that I make which is opposite to 
the Spirit of Goodness is a negation of my eternal 
life with God, and hides God from me. God can 
do all things for me if I am true to his thoughts 
and have his faith. His faith is the affirmation 
of the Power of the All-Good. 

I am Life. I am Health. I am Joy. I am 
Prosperity. My love is of God and for the 
truth, and I constantly fill my mind with positive 
thoughts of truth, which create good and har- 
monious conditions for me. 

There is only One Mind, the Mind of God, full 
of divine life and intelligence for all, overflowing 
with healing love and uplifting light. 

I lift my mind from all appearances of limita- 
tion to the consciousness of the one Omnipotent 
Power, and affirm that I am the recipient of all 
its goodness and love. 

I negate from my being all the feelings and 
thoughts of the world, and individualize the 
thoughts based on my unity with God the Good, 
for I am the spoken word of Almighty God, and 
I manifest his intelligent goodness, now and for- 
ever. 



WE GROW LIKE THAT WHICH WE 

STUDY 

Noted throat specialists have died of ailments 
of the throat, insanity experts have become as 
mad as their patients, and students of tuberculosis 
have often succumbed to this dread disease. He 
who studies the power of disease will find disease 
and death creeping over his whole organism, and 
he who gives his attention to the power of life 
will find the Power that can transform him into 
health and perfection. 

We are all mind. We live in an ocean of 
Mind, and we are each a polarizing center cap- 
able of drawing into our being any quality of mind 
we may desire to incorporate. 

Looking at the universe from the physical 
standpoint, it is a vast ocean of matter or negative 
mind. This ocean of living force is constantly 
in flux, like the water that is part of a whirlpool 
one minute and the next minute has gone to form 
a gigantic wave. So the atoms of negative mind 
are building up one body to-day, which to-morrow 
will have disintegrated and those same atoms will 
have gone to form another body. The planet is 
one center of force, and the trees and animals and 
our bodies are still other centers organized for 
the time being from the substance of the universe. 
But if all this force is constantly in flux and not 
bound by any ties other than the attraction of the 

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moment, what is it that holds our bodies and the 
bodies of all things in the forms in which they ap- 
pear? It is positive, invisible mind. Here we 
see the power of the invisible cause, the attrac- 
tiveness of that positive center of mind that draws 
around itself a body of physical atoms. We see 
that the positive, invisible pole of being has power 
over the world of visible effects. 

The organized form of positive mind is the 
positive pole of attraction. The positive mind 
of the plant has learned to polarize atoms into the 
beautiful forms of verdure. The mind of the 
plant is organized from the universal Mind. It 
has dominion over the atoms of negative sub- 
stance, and it is developing a still stronger power 
by this process of organizing a form, so that after 
it has accomplished all that it can with one form, 
it will have gained the power to organize a still 
higher and more complex, form of life. We are 
polarizing as much of life as we understand, and 
as we understand more we will use our powers of 
mind to organize into form the deeper realities 
of the Spirit of Truth. 

The complexity of the form will depend upon 
the power of the mind within the form which is 
holding it in organization. Its quality will also 
be determined by the quality of the mind that 
does the polarizing. This is illustrated by the 
fact that no two persons get the same benefit from 
the same foods. What is nourishment for one 
man is often poison for another. You may feed 
two persons the same quantity of meat per meal; 
one will grow fat while the other remains as thin 



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as a greyhound. One has attributes of mind 
which find and attract to themselves correspond- 
ing chemicals in the meat; and the other, not hav- 
ing the mental qualities that are nourished by a 
meat diet, will not build up on that substance. 

It has been noted that those who study the 
heavens live to a goodly age. The mind of the 
astronomer opens up to the unfolding spaces of 
infinitude, with their teeming world systems, and 
in searching out the meaning of it all he inbreathes 
some of the Spirit of Truth. 

Minds centered upon the cares of the world 
and busy with the small duties of life, need to be 
opened by study and contemplation to the gran- 
deur of the great God whose marvelous Presence 
is manifest in all the laws and forms of the uni- 
verse. Students should seek that instruction 
which opens the mind to the mighty Spirit of 
Life. This is necessary, that the mind may re- 
ceive new life and the power to manifest life in 
endless abundance. 

Says the voice of Truth: 

" I am come that ye might have life, 
And have it more abundantly." 

The Truth reveals the life which was always here 
but which we did not recognize. And our recog- 
nition opens up our minds to receive of its bless- 
ings. Recognition grows into faith, and faith 
builds up the mental forces that polarize life. 

As we walk through the park or in the woods, 
we should know that the contact of our feet with 
the ground is giving us of the magnetic vitality 



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of Mother Nature. The air is filled with invig- 
orating vitality, the sun is pouring its mighty life 
into our being, and the beauty and grace of God 
manifest in all outdoors are giving us a magnetic, 
mental, and soul treatment that tunes our minds 
to infinite life and health. We are healed be- 
cause it is the Presence of God that we recognize. 
Let us contemplate the beauty and power of the 
God-Presence that is all and in all, and we will 
be harmonized by its mighty harmonies and feel 
the thrill of the divine consciousness pervading 
our natures. We will grow like that which we 
study. 

It has been discovered that the perfume and 
color of roses will soothe the nerves and often 
cure a headache. To concentrate the mind upon 
one of these forms of nature's beauty and grace, 
brings our nature into unity with the Spirit of 
universal Nature, which is the Presence of God. 
Each one of Nature's forms is a key to the king- 
dom of life, of beauty, and of endless wisdom. 
All forms are but the physical manifestations of 
spiritual entities, and these spiritual entities, or 
minds, are drawing their intelligence and power 
from the infinite Source. They are the one in- 
finite Intelligence made manifest, so we can say 
that Nature, as a whole, is a form of God. If 
we will examine any form of life, we will come in 
touch with a wisdom and skill so profound that 
our deepest thinking cannot compass it. And we, 
as organized beings, stand at the head of all Na- 
ture's manifestations. We already have domin- 
ion over the negative mind of Nature. The fact 
that our spiritual nature has organized this form 






Healing Currents 19 

and has the power to hold it in life and to give 
activity to all its functions, proves that we are 
endowed with dominion. Now we are coming 
to the consciousness that our thought has built the 
character that is the invisible pattern upon which 
our flesh is woven, and that our thought, rightly 
cultivated, can increase our organizing power. 
Our thought can make for us a body of health or 
a body of pain. Let us study the mighty Life 
within and all about us, that our thoughts may be 
filled with the breath of the divine Spirit, and our 
bodies renewed and reformed into living images 
of health and perfection. 

Thousands of chronic ailments have been 
healed in those who desired health and knew that 
they could get it through study of vital, healing 
literature. The desire for healing and the con- 
stant study of the healing words, opened their na- 
tures to the omnipotent Life that is always seek- 
ing to image forth its own likeness of infinite 
health and perfection. The Holy Spirit of God 
never ceases its healing ministrations. If we do 
not know of its goodness and mercy, we cannot 
have faith in its operation; without knowledge of 
the transforming power, we cannot be receptive to 
its influx, because it flows through our knowledge 
or faith into our bodies. The more knowledge 
we have of spiritual realities, the more vibrant 
our minds become with the living Breath of 
Heaven, and joyous vitality from the streams of 
eternal Life bubbles up within us and fills us with 
the consciousness of unity with the Father, so that 
we rejoice perpetually in the knowledge of the 
Presence and Power of our God. 



MAN'S RELATION TO THE UNIVERSAL 

MIND 

The universe is one vast Mind, expressing itself 
in all the manifold forms of vitality and intel- 
ligence. There are two poles of this great Mind 
— positive and negative — for it is a mighty 
magnet of living, attractive force. And . if we 
gain a comprehension of the law of attraction 
that radiates out from the positive pole of life, 
holding suns and systems of suns as well as man 
and every atom of created life in obedience to its 
one law; if we understand this law of life, we 
shall know how to fulfil the law in order to pro- 
gress to the highest attainments, how to overcome 
every obstacle to the success of our endeavors. 

The sun of our solar system is the positive pole 
of attraction, which holds the negative planetary 
spheres subject to its controlling influence, and 
radiates to all planets the vibrations which we 
sense as light and heat. The sun in turn is nega- 
tive and obedient to the influence of some more 
positive sun of magnetic force, a mightier center 
which regulates the movement of solar systems. 

And yet this vast physical universe of created 
worlds and suns is, as a whole, but the negative 
pole of the Mind of God. It is the lowest degree 
of expression of that Great Mind. It is the most 
inert or negative condition of mind possible. 

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The name matter should not be applied to this 
universal physical substance, because the word is 
used to express the idea of deadness or absence 
of life, and there is not an atom in all the universe 
utterly devoid of vitality or intelligence. All is 
Mind, an intelligent Mind evolving and express- 
ing more and more of its dormant energy in all 
substance. Progression is natural to all life. 

We have grown to our present state of positive 
intelligence through long, hard experience, so that 
it is well for us now to acquaint ourselves with the 
aspect of the positive pole of Mind, the source of 
all happiness, health, and prosperity. Therefore 
we turn our attention from the plane of forget- 
fulness to the plane of endless consciousness. 

The positive pole of Mind is the individualiza- 
tion and revelation of all the qualities and attri- 
butes of the Eternal Being. It is the Great I AM, 
the unceasing affirmation and expression of all the 
love, wisdom and power of the Infinite Unknown. 
It is the Great Sun of God, forever radiating in- 
telligence and life to all planes of Mind, to all 
worlds and all beings. 

These radiations of mental energy from the 
Sun of God fill the objective heavenly realms with 
the Glory of divine Love and Wisdom, flowing 
out through all states of the universal Mind until 
they reach the limit of the orbit of evolution, 
when they commence to individualize, evolve and 
progress back to their source through crystal, 
vegetable, animal and human forms, until the hu- 
man mind and the Divine Mind blend in conscious 
unity, and the mortal realizes the immortality of 



22 Healing Currents 

the Sons of God. So we see that the origin of all 
is God, and that all forms and minds are manifes- 
tations of God, evolving slowly but surely the lat- 
ent possibilities of vitality and intelligence within 
them, until they become gods, with the conscious 
ability to mold their lives and destinies as they 
will, thus manifesting the will of God. 

Now for the practical application of these 
thoughts. We are compelled to progress from 
negative to positive, continually, through the ex- 
perience we gain in the battle for existence, but if 
we are willing to learn the laws of Mind and apply 
them constantly in working life's problems, we 
shall develop more rapidly in intelligence and we 
shall realize the happiness and success that come 
from fulfilling the divine laws. 

The positive pole of the thinking individual is 
that controlling power of the mind which affirms, 
I Am, I Will. This is the magnetic core to which 
everything in the nature responds. 

Man is a magnet, an epitome of the Great 
Magnet, and through his positive pole he can ap- 
propriate and individualize somewhat of all the 
qualities and powers of the Whole, for this power 
of affirmation unites him to the positive pole of 
the Divine Mind and enables him to draw from 
this Radiant Center everything that he may need 
for the expansion and growth of his own nature. 

There is no limit to the supply. It is equal to 
the demand, and manifests for man's use when he 
understands how to appropriate through the exer- 
cise of the magnetic power of his mind. He must 
know that the positive pole of All-Being is the 



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real center of his own being, the Image into whose 
Likeness he is gradually growing. By identify- 
ing himself with the qualities which radiate from 
this mighty Center, and affirming them for his 
own being, as the qualities that belong to all in- 
telligence, latent or developed, he will build up the 
positive forces of his mind which will overcome 
every negative condition of body or affairs. 

Failure, sickness, and misery are not real 
forces; they are not positive elements, but the lack 
of such; they are the result of negative conditions 
of the mind, and are indications of a lack of vi- 
tality or knowledge. 

The intelligence in the nature strives of itself 
to overcome diseased conditions, to remove irri- 
tating obstructions, and to eliminate poisons from 
the system. This is recognized by those physi- 
cians who give remedies merely to aid nature in 
her work. 

If the intelligence in the nature can produce 
health, then when this bodily intelligence is inten- 
sified, greater healing powers will result. The 
mind can polarize the needed vitality and intelli- 
gence and draw it into bodily expression from the 
radiations that fill the Mind of the world, by the 
mental affirmation: 

I am Intelligence. 

I am filled with the Healing Power of the Mind 
of God. 

The clouds of misery, fear, and discouragement 
can likewise be dissolved from the mind by lifting 
it from these negative thought currents into the 
positive currents of joyous life, strength, and un- 
faltering courage, through affirming: 



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I Am, I know I Am, and there is nothing 
greater than I Am. 

My mind is filled with the light and happiness 
of true thinking, and I inspire faith and courage 
with every breath I breathe. 

The mind may in this way be educated to a 
strong and substantial faith in its own powers; it 
will realize that success is a positive attribute of 
intelligence, and it should work and study unceas- 
ingly to individualize intelligence by this mental 
culture until the whole character is changed. 
Then it will feel the strength and power to suc- 
cessfully execute all its designs. 

Prosperity will attend the mind that realizes 
that all material things are subject to its influence 
when it lives up to this truth. This will be dem- 
onstrated as the mind casts out all beliefs of 
lack or want, and is trained to know that: 

I am Success. I am Prosperity. 

I am a mighty magnet for money. I draw to 
myself everything that I desire to make my life 
comfortable and complete. 

I will manifest the vitality and intelligence of 
God, and enjoy health, happiness, and prosperity 
in all my ways. 



YOU ARE POWER 

Tremendous energy and power are stored in 
your soul, more than enough for every physical 
need. By continuous affirmation you can bring 
this power into manifestation. The patient af- 
firmation of truth, continued with persistence — 
with conviction that all you desire will be accom- 
plished — is the power of faith to bring about all 
good. Here are some rousing statements: 

I am a soul organized of the potencies of the 
living, eternal God. I call all my soul power into 
action to quicken all my organs, and reorganize 
my body into an image of health and perfection. 

God is the power that works through my soul 
to quicken and purify and spiritualize my flesh. 
My soul is the power that polarizes the atoms 
and holds my body in form according to the men- 
tal pattern. I am not bound by any mortal or 
spiritual limitations. I do not condemn myself 
to grossness. The race beliefs of the deadness 
and grossness of matter and flesh are dissolved 
from my mind. There is no deadness or slug- 
gishness in my flesh. It is alive throughout every 
organ and atom with mental energy and intelli- 
gence. 

I will arouse the dormant powers of my soul 
and so infuse my body with new life and intelli- 

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gence that every particle will tingle and thrill with 
the vitality and health of Almighty God. I am 
all mind. My body responds to every thought 
and feeling centered in it. I will cultivate the 
force and negative intelligence in my flesh until it 
becomes responsive and active, until it becomes 
living thought energy, and obeys the will of my 
soul. 

I will infuse all the life and power of my im- 
mortal soul into my flesh. I must be quick- 
ened and spiritualized. I must vibrate with 
life. The intelligence latent in every organ must 
be aroused to operate in divine harmony for the 
health of the whole body. I bless every internal 
organ with the cleansing activity of the Spirit of 
God, which flows through my soul into my mind 
and fills the blood with the cleansing waters of 
life. 

Read the foregoing statements over a number 
of times daily, and pick out some one for special 
emphasis. The mighty power of God is in and 
all around you awaiting your word of appropria- 
tion. You can speak words of truth until verily 
your whole nature will be the vibrating Word of 
Power manifesting. 



POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MIND 

The mental healer works upon the theory that 
All is Mind; that every object in existence is an 
individualized form of the universal Mind in one 
degree or another of development or evolution; 
that the human mind is the highest type of evolved 
intelligence, and that it can express more and 
more of health and perfection through appropria- 
tion of the qualities of the Divine Mind, of which 
it is a self-conscious expression. 

He is consistent with this premise in regard- 
ing the body as mind also, negative mind to be 
sure, but a substance potential with vitality and 
intelligence, every cell of which is capable of 
manifesting perfection and of acting in harmony 
with every other cell for the healing and perfect- 
ing of the whole. 

This places the human being in the aspect of 
a living battery of mental energy, the thought 
power being the positive pole and the flesh the 
negative pole; and through the constant action of 
thought power the individual is polarizing the 
thought substance from the universal Mind, and 
the body responds to the thought power and or- 
ganizes the cells to conform to the characteristics 
of the mental qualities individualized. In other 
words, the character of the individual is expressed 
in every cell of his nature, because the character 

of mind polarizes and qualifies the bodily cells. 

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28 Healing Currents 

It is the constant action of the mental forces 
of the human magnet that produces all the in- 
voluntary actions of digestion, breathing, heart- 
pumping, etc., and holds the nature in active or- 
ganization. When either pole of the battery is 
injured the whole being suffers in consequence. 

The mental healer understands that diseased 
conditions of the patient are often visible expres- 
sions of discordant mental action, the embodied 
effect of some of the patient's thoughts and feel- 
ings, and through his thought power — which is 
transferable from one battery to another, as elec- 
tric impulses are sent through space without wires 
: — the healer seeks to inspire the patient's mind 
with thoughts that will counteract the effect al- 
ready produced and cause a new physical effect 
of a more perfect character. 

All so-called matter is a storehouse of potential 
life and energy; it is the intelligence and power of 
the universal Mind crystallized and at rest; it is 
the embodiment of the mighty forces and energies 
of the God Mind; it is the negative pole of the 
battery of life, and every power and quality of 
the Divine Mind will be found expressed in some 
degree in this visible nature of God. 

All is Mind, and all thoughts seek embodi- 
ment in organized form. Disease germs are at 
most but negative forms of unconscious or unde- 
veloped mind, and they can be entirely overcome 
by the positive thought of the mind that recog- 
nizes its own power. 

All the remedies used by physicians are forms 
of mental energy, and their quality is more posi- 



Healing Currents 29 

tive than the diseased conditions they counteract 
or suppress. 

The mental healer applies a positive thought 
force to the mind of the patient, and through the 
mind this force acts on the mind's organization; 
while the physician applies a drug, a negative form 
of thought, to the body, from which it reacts on 
the mind. One works on the positive pole and 
the other on the negative pole of the individual, 
and both get results equal to the intelligence of 
their efforts. 

Natural and spiritual methods both are good 
and serviceable in the development of the indi- 
vidual. The best results will not be accomplished 
by flying to the one extreme of looking to the 
Spirit and ignoring the needs of the body, entirely, 
nor by going to the other extreme of applying the 
natural physical elements needful toward the heal- 
ing, without recognizing the mind which organ- 
izes these elements and produces the perfect re- 
sult. By natural elements I do not mean drastic 
or destructive drugs or serums, but only those ele- 
ments which are found in the physical composi- 
tion of the body. 

Man is a composite entity, being a body, mind, 
and soul related to the Body, Mind, and Spirit of 
the Universe of God, and he must use discrimi- 
native knowledge if he would keep himself bal- 
anced and in harmony with the Whole. 

When the human mind is consciously in unity 
with the Mind of God, and illumined by the prin- 
ciples of divine knowledge, every fact that has 
ever been discovered will glorify God and reveal 



30 Healing Currents 

the action of the Mind of God in every sphere of 
existence, and in every atom of so-called matter. 
When viewed from the exalted standpoint of the 
One Great Mind, all the facts which the scientific 
investigators have discovered will coincide and 
agree with all the revelations that have dawned 
upon the intuitive perception of man. 

Man will evolve to that condition of mastery 
over his physical nature where he will escape all 
the ills of the flesh and many other ills beside, 
when he gains the knowledge of his unity with the 
Divine Mind, and realizes that he can individ- 
ualize these potent qualities of mind which image 
forth the likeness of the Divine Being; that he 
can have perfect health and perfect happiness 
only by having a perfect character. 

Man must understand that the currents of his 
thinking qualify the blood and nerve currents, 
which control and feed every organ, muscle, and 
fiber of his complex physical organism, and that 
there lies within his mental grasp the power to 
control every action of his nature. Through the 
wonderful action and reaction of his positive and 
negative mind, backed by the universal Intelli- 
gence, the processes of life have been going on 
unconsciously, and the human mind has not real- 
ized that it was the cause of discordant condi- 
tions, and could just as easily cause harmonious 
conditions. 

The body, the negative pole of the human bat- 
tery, is responding every instant to the thoughts 
and feelings that are generated by the positive 
pole, and as the mind becomes more intelligent 



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and more conscious of its power, it will grow more 
positive and infuse the flesh with its positive in- 
telligence, giving it vitality and strength to over- 
come every diseased condition. 

Man is not only ignorant of his unity with the 
universal Mind, but he is also busily engaged in 
thinking thoughts that do not conform to divine 
ideas, nor express the qualities which characterize 
the Thoughts that emanate from the positive pole 
of the divine Mind; he is generating thoughts and 
feelings of lust, hatred, condemnation, fear, mal- 
ice, selfishness, revenge, cruelty, jealousy, and 
envy, which come into physical expression as a 
host of abnormal bodily conditions. All such 
thoughts and feelings are mortal, and tend toward 
disease and the disintegration of the human mag- 
net. They produce currents which cross with the 
currents of life and health and destroy the human 
organism, while the thoughts of the divine Mind 

— purity, love, praise, courage, power, joy, free- 
dom, success, and goodwill — are immortal and! 
filled with the Life eternal; they are most positive 
and have the power to convert, transform, and 
reorganize all the mortal and negative thoughts 
and their resultant conditions into health, har- 
mony, and happiness. 

As all space is filled with electricity, which be- 
comes manifest only through the dynamo that 
generates it, so in like manner, the whole of Im- 
mensity is irradiant with the beneficent healing 
Thought of the Divine Mind — the Holy Spirit 

— which will come into action by being polarized 
to the positive pole of the human magnet. 



32 Healing Currents 

This mighty Mind of God is manifesting its 
love, wisdom, and power throughout the whole of 
its vast creation; it is individualizing its thought 
wherever there is form or life, and inspiring all 
creatures with the great vital impulse which 
causes them to progress in the onward and up- 
ward movement of evolution, from the negative 
pole of undeveloped Mind to the positive pole 
of conscious life and intelligence. 



HOW TO PRACTISE MENTAL 
HEALING 

The central attraction of the New Thought has 
been the great fact of its healing power. Into 
the mind of the race has come a mighty wave of 
New Thought, bringing with it a merciful vitality 
for the strengthening of the weak, the healing of 
the sick and the soothing of all pain. The Angel 
of Goodness is stirring the pool of life and all 
who will may have health and peace in overflow- 
ing abundance. 

If you are seeking health — physical, mental, 
or spiritual — it is essential first of all that you 
thoroughly grasp this fact: You are all mind, 
through and through, from soul to physical atoms. 
You believe that you are part mind and part mat- 
ter; that part of your nature is intelligent and the 
rest is inert and unresponsive, except to powerful 
drugs and stimulants. But the fact of the mat- 
ter is, every nerve and muscle and atom is re- 
sponsive to the action of your mind. You are or- 
ganized intelligence. YOU ARE ALL MIND. 

You have been in the habit of thinking that all 
the mind you have is situated in your brain. To 
be sure, your brain is the most positive center of 
mental action, and from its substance you 'generate 
the conscious thought that inspires and affects 
every negative center in your body. If you but 

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34 Healing Currents 

stop to think, you will acknowledge that there is 
an instinctive intelligence operative in the involun- 
tary action of your heart and lungs, and in every 
organ of your body. There is wisdom expressed 
in the adaptation of every bone and muscle and 
organ to its proper uses. And this wisdom is a 
creative intelligence constantly operative in your 
physical organization. You know your will has 
dominion over matter, for your will, operating 
through your arm, can move an inert object. 
Now that same mental force which acts through 
your will to lift a heavy weight into the air, or 
walk your one or two hundred pounds of flesh the 
distance of a mile or more, is the same mind that 
is organizing and reorganizing every part of your 
body, and it is this mental force that can be edu- 
cated to heal your body and keep you in health. 
You have misdirected this wonderful force and 
it has caused you sickness- and pain. 

If you have been fearful of God, or man, or 
the devil, you have congealed the secretions and 
by your thoughts of fear retarded the action of 
some physical function. You should learn of the 
Love that overcomes all fear. Heavy charges of 
electricity will burn out the wires and connections 
in an electric battery, and if you consider that your 
organization is a mental battery, you will not be 
surprised that heavy charges of anger paralyze 
the delicate nerve wires and burn out brain cells 
in such abundance that mental action is no longer 
possible. Passion will poison the blood and de- 
stroy digestion. Fright has been known to turn 
the hair white in a single night, and excessive joy 



Healing Currents 35 

has so affected the whole organism as to cause 
sudden death. 

Woven into your mind are all the false beliefs 
and feelings of the race, which are the basic 
causes for all mental and physical tribulations. 
The true philosophy of life will correct these 
causes and unite you to the fountain of everlast- 
ing life and love from which will bubble forth a 
joyous life and strength sufficient for every need. 

The second point of importance for you to un- 
derstand is the marvelous fact that thoughts are 
forces, endowed with an intelligence which en- 
ables them to be directed to accomplish what you 
will, in your body or in the body of a friend. As 
angels of mercy and love are sent out from the 
Almighty Presence to carry blessings to humanity, 
so from your mind are sent out thoughts endowed 
with your quality of intelligence, which go forth 
to cause peace or pain wherever they may be sent. 
You have probably not realized the importance 
of the truth that God gave man dominion over 
everything less positive than himself. " Ye are 
gods," said David and Jesus. You have been 
endowed by the Almighty with dominion over 
every negative state of your body-mind. The 
will power which you have received from your 
Father is creative in potency, and you can create 
health and happiness by working in unity with the 
love and wisdom of Elohim. 

Disease and pain are the results of a lack of 
strength or intelligence in the inharmonious or- 
gan. You can consciously increase the force and 
intelligence in every organ of your body by think- 



36 Healing Currents 

ing of the organ as an intelligent thing and bless- 
ing it with your power of thought. Take the 
heart, for instance. You know that mental ex- 
citement or fear will increase or disturb the 
heart's action. If the heart is weak in action, 
speak strength to it in this way: (It is not nec- 
essary to repeat the words aloud.) 

I am strong and courageous, and I fill you with 
my strength and courage. 

You are organized life and intelligence. 

You are active with the life of God, and there 
is nothing to limit your strength and power. 

Repeating such words constantly will develop 
strength in the weakest heart and cause it to do 
its duty without a murmur. The bodily organs 
are like children or animals; they appreciate love 
and attention. We are thinking so much of ex- 
ternal things that all our thought force is spent 
outside of the body, and when we do think of any 
particular organ it is with a fear that it will not 
do its duty. Such thoughts go into the organ 
thought of and work to limit its action. Every 
time we think or speak of our weakness, or limit 
in thought the action of any bodily function, we 
are actually tearing down the strength and power 
of our organism. We must understand that as 
children of the Almighty we are endowed with all 
power and intelligence, and that we limit or ex- 
pand our powers by the action of our own minds. 
If we build a mind of faith in the Presence and 
Power of God in our midst, our faith lays hold of 
and brings into operation his divine life and in- 
telligence. And likewise, if we place any limit 






Healing Currents 37 

upon our own abilities, whether in the ability to 
manifest health or success in any department of 
life, just in that degree do we limit the action of 
the Almighty in our behalf. God is glorified in 
glorifying his children; in making of them gods 
in his own image and likeness of health, perfec- 
tion and success. " Be ye perfect even as your 
Father in heaven is perfect," is the command. 

The mind can construct or destroy. Good, 
harmonious thoughts full of love and praise are 
constructive. Vindictive, pessimistic, angry and 
critical thoughts are destructive. Prof. Elmer 
Gates, then of the Washington Smithsonian In- 
stitution, constructed a breath-condenser which 
will reveal poison in the exhalations from the 
lungs of an angry person. It is known to the 
medical profession that mothers have poisoned 
their babies and caused them to die in convulsions 
by nursing them after a fit of anger. 

This destructive power of the mind can be used 
consciously to dissolve abnormal growths from 
the body. I defy any false growth to withstand 
the dissolving thought focused upon it by a per- 
sistent mind. Say to any such growth as often as 
possible: My body is the temple of the living 
God, and you have no right to destroy this tem- 
ple or to create imperfection. I dissolve you by 
the potency of my concentrated will. 

An organ in pain can be soothed as you would 
comfort and harmonize an unhappy child. Do 
not forget that the organ is as intelligent as any 
animal, and as responsive to a harsh or pleasant 
word. / bless you with the love of my soul. 



38 Healing Currents 

which harmonizes all your nerves and atoms. 
Such blessings will create harmonious conditions. 
If your blood is impure, think in this manner : 

/ am a pure spring flowing from the Fountain 
of Divine Life. 

My blood is cleansed and purified by the Holy 
Spirit that glorifies all my life. 

My heart is cleansed of all impure thoughts 
and feelings, and I am at peace. 

Dormant activities can be aroused by persist- 
ently thinking toward the organ or organs : 

You are the Spirit of Life in action. 

You are filled with joyous , active life, and you 
love to fulfill the will of my soul in making life 
manifest. 

Many have overcome indigestion of long stand- 
ing by repeating over and over: 

/ have within me the power from God which is 
able to digest and assimilate anything that I may 
choose to put into my stomach. 

My stomach is a living dynamo of life and 
energy capable of doing its perfect duty. 

My stomach enjoys its work and loves to as- 
similate the good life in all things. 

These are but a few of the many processes that 
may be used. Each case requires thoughtful at- 
tention and much confidence on the part of the 
one using the healing thought. If confidence is 
not aroused after a few trials, you should not lose 
faith in the methods, but should seek a teacher 
who can help you to that state of confidence in 
your own powers which is but latent and inactive 
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That part of mental or spiritual healing which 
seerns to border on the realm of the miraculous is 
the power of one mind over another mind and 
body situated at a distance. This is based upon 
the truth that minds are not distinct or separate, 
but are surrounded by and united in One Uni- 
versal Mind, of which each one is an organized 
part. We are living in an invisible ocean of 
Mind, and through this ocean our thought waves 
proceed to the one to whom they are directed, 
just as the Hertzian waves vibrate out from the 
transmitter of a Marconi instrument to the re- 
ceiver situated at a distance of thousands of 
miles. As it is possible to send impulses through 
space without wires, so may we send the more 
highly refined thought impulses from one human 
battery to another, no matter how far apart they 
may be. In treating patients living at a distance, 
the same process may be used as in treating one- 
self, except that the name of the patient should be 
repeated mentally about seven times before talk- 
ing to the part of the body to be healed. 

It should be remembered that the physical body 
is organized by the constructive force of thought 
and feeling. Our invisible character is a real 
form of force independent of its physical envel- 
ope. The character is the positive organizing 
mind, the body is the negative mind, obedient and 
responsive to the action of the more positive en- 
tity. It is through your character that all life 
and action express in your physical body, and your 
character determines the quantity and quality of 
your life, also how successful you will be. Char- 



40 Healing Currents 

acter forms or limits life. So the real basis of all 
true mental or physical healing is character build- 
ing. Now this invisible character — this invis- 
ible part of you — which is so potent in weaving 
physical substance into grotesque or beautiful 
physical forms, into diseased or healthy forms of 
life, is a bundle of thoughts and feelings crystal- 
lized. As you have organized your character by 
your constant thinking, and thus created the cause 
for your present physical condition, so by your 
thinking you can recreate and transform your 
character and change all the expressions of your 
body into new and more beautiful texture. If 
you have piled false thoughts and impure desires 
one upon the other to cause an unhealthy mind 
and body, you can begin now to use your thoughts 
to dissolve the mental building of the past, and 
work your mind just as persistently to form a 
character that will be composed of pure emotions 
and true, generous thoughts. A mind that is in 
the consciousness of the Almighty Goodness and 
Love of the Father, having naught but blessings 
for every soul of God, feeling only kindness and 
goodwill toward even the meanest criminal, will 
glorify its earthly temple with the very Spirit of 
God, and be transfigured into the image of the 
divine Perfection, as was Jesus the God-Man. 
And we all, with perception open to the living 
Truth, beholding the divine Love, may be trans- 
formed into the same image from glory to glory, 
even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 

We must open our eyes to see that the physical 
universe is the body of the infinite and eternal 



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God, and if we comprehend how our mind per- 
vades and affects every part of our body, we will 
grasp the truth that the omnipotent Mind of God 
is present in every part of his Grand Body. 

• We are surrounded and pervaded by his loving 
Presence, which is eternal life to all who awake to 
this fact. We cannot escape from God. We 
are organized from his Mind and Substance, and 
as quickly as we recognize that we can have all of 
the Good we can accept and make manifest, we 
will begin to draw upon the inexhaustible Source 
for all the life, health, prosperity, and satisfac- 
tion we need. We should build our faith strong 
in the truth that the Almighty is for us, and noth- 
ing of evil can overcome us or make us forget 
that there is only omnipotent Goodness in us and 
all about us. It is in those who are apparently 
evil, but they have not been taught of the divine 
presence, and the condemnations of mortals help 
to keep hidden the germ of divinity that slumbers 
within them. They are misdirecting the good 
life and energy with which the Father so bounti- 
fully supplies them, because they lack knowledge 
of how to use and apply their forces, and nothing 
will save them from their ignorance and sin but 
the knowledge of the truth of their own unity with 
the Father. 

It is very important for us to know that we 
grow like that which we study. If we keep be- 
fore our minds the beauty and perfection of the 
character of Jesus Christ, we will find our souls 
attracted more and more to that divine ideal, until 
the same love which he had and has at the present 



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■ ■!■■■■ !■ II I — - — ■■■ ■■ ! — , ! , M , ^ 

time for humanity, will be kindled within us, and 
we shall know that we all are of one kindred and 
have but one Father, even God. The most per- 
fect and permanent healing is attained only by the 
perception of this grand truth and the awakening 
of the soul to the realization of the mighty love 
of God. This Christ-love must endow us with a 
feeling of universal fellowship with all souls as 
children of the one Father; we must feel toward) 
all just as Christ felt, if we would be healed by 
his transforming love. The Christ Spirit yearns 
to heal and prosper all souls, but unless it can find 
entrance and expression through our souls as love, 
its power is limited so far as we are concerned. 

I have studied all the modern theories promul- 
gated for the healing of the sick, and for years I 
have taught and practised the healing Truth, and! 
I wish to give as a word of guidance to all who 
may be seeking for the healmg power, either for 
self-benefit or for the healing of others, that the 
living personal Christ is the repository' of all wis- 
dom and all healing love; and the one who will 
look to Him constantly and draw upon Him con- 
tinually for the healing influx, will find an exal- 
tation of the spiritual nature and an indwelling, 
heavenly bliss which will bring a culmination of 
all desires and satisfy the mind with the conscious- 
ness of an immortal heritage that even death can- 
not overcome. 

Study the New Thought and expand your mind 
with its healing, freeing truth, for it will free 
you from many misconceptions about God and 
man ; it will bring you up to date in your thought, 



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for when rightly taught it unites the latest revela- 
tions of religion and the latest discoveries of sci- 
ence into one glorious truth. But while you are 
educating your head in this religious truth, keep 
your heart very close to the loving Heart of God, 
the personified Presence of the Father from 
whom streams the healing love and life, without 
which you are never any more than a mortal, but 
living and expressing which you are a healthy, 
radiant Soul of God. 



SCIENTIFIC CONFIRMATION OF THE 
POWER OF MIND 

That thought controls the blood current has been 
given startling scientific confirmation by Dr. W. 
G. Anderson, of the Yale University gymnasium. 
He has a subject lie on a very delicate machine 
called a " muscle bed," and the body is so ad- 
justed on the bed that it is perfectly balanced as 
long as the mind of the subject is indifferent and 
passive. But let the subject try to solve a mental 
problem and immediately there is a flow of blood 
to the head, which causes the " muscle bed " to 
tip toward the head. The mere imagination of 
walking or running causes- the blood to flow to- 
ward the feet, and the machine to tip in that direc- 
tion. 

Numerous experiments with this machine have 
proved that the blood responds to the action of 
thought and feeling. As the blood is the fluid 
which takes up all fatigue and destructive poisons 
from the tissues, and that also carries all the nec- 
essary reconstructive elements; and as it can be 
directed consciously to carry nourishing, healing 
elements to any part of the body, then the power 
of mind which controls it is the greatest healing 
force known to man. 

The following words of Louis R. Muller, 
whose photograph shows that he has attained a 

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splendid physical development, coupled with the 
statements of Eugene Sandow, one of the strong- 
est men in the world, are also interesting evidence 
of the practical way in which the power of mind 
may be exercised in physical development. 

THOUGHT FORCE AS A FACTOR IN MUSCULAR 
DEVELOPMENT 

" In the development of a more perfect physique 
there are quite a number of things to take into 
consideration. A great many enthusiastic begin- 
ners think that the word ' exercise ' covers the 
whole field. So it does, but not bodily exercise. 
Exercise of the functions of the brain is equally 
if not more important. Concentrating the thought 
force along certain lines gives us a controlling 
power to overcome unhygienic habits that tend to 
retard the growth of muscular tissue. Mere bod- 
ily exercise, even if performed at haphazard, will 
in time produce some good results. Tissue-build- 
ing is a natural consequence of following certain 
well-defined laws. In order to obtain the most 
rapid development we must make a scientific study 
of those laws. 

" We must exercise the muscles, use proper diet 
at the proper time, be thoroughly hygienic in our 
habits — and when I say hygienic I mean it in a 
broad sense. One must abstain from tobacco and 
liquor in every form, and allow himself enough 
time for sleep. His moral habits must be above 
reproach. All these things tend to put the mind 
in condition, that we may gain the power of con- 
centration, and concentration of the mind is the 
fundamental law that governs the growth of tis- 
sue. 



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" It is no theory, but a well-defined law, that the 
more we concentrate, the better our results. We 
must know the muscles we wish to develop, and 
by concentrating all our thought force in their di- 
rection, the dead cells are more quickly removed, 
and new ones added in greater quantities, owing 
to the increased nervous activity of the parts. 
We must practice concentration of the mind in 
its highest degree, hand in hand with physical 
exercise, if we wish to obtain the most perfect 
results. 

" Diet has a great deal to do with our power 
of concentration. Concentration in a greater or 
less degree is the cause of all muscular develop- 
ment. It is unconscious in some, but it can be 
developed in all. It is the most important part 
in scientific physical culture. To be able to focus 
all one's energy on a certain muscle, and to accom- 
plish this with ease, is a faculty well worth de- 
veloping. One can almost seem to see a muscle 
grow. I would advise one who is ambitious to 
try this for awhile, to see how quickly he will no- 
tice the improvement. First, cultivate proper hab- 
its of diet, hygiene, and purity of thought; then 
try exercising one muscle at a time, till it is thor- 
oughly tired, concentrating all your thought on 
that one muscle. Let your mind be perfectly pas- 
sive, and for the time being hold to the thought 
of the one muscle you wish to develop. 

" Louis R. Muller." 

CONCENTRATION OF MIND 

" So far as heredity is concerned I had nothing 
to be especially thankful for, since while still a 
mere lad my father's friend advised him to direct 






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my studies toward the ministry, as he explained, 
1 Your son will be hardly fit for any more stren- 
uous occupation.' Later our family physician in 
Konigsberg, near the Russian frontier, told my fa- 
ther that if he would not take me to Italy for the 
winter I would never survive it, such a weakling 
I was as a child. Well, I went to Italy, and there 
my eyes were opened. The Greek and Roman 
statues I saw there inspired me to lift from myself 
the stigma of weakness, for I felt somehow that 
even in our time the weak man is despised. I went 
at the labor of revitalization with energy and per- 
sistence. You perceive I have somewhat suc- 
ceeded, and let me tell you I am still at it. I 
maintain that it is possible for a man to emulate 
my example, even as I emulated that of the Greeks 
and Romans of old. 

" It is the mind — all a matter of the mind. 
The muscles really have a secondary place. If 
you lift a pair of dumb-bells a hundred times a 
day with your fixed attention on some object away 
over in Cambridge, it will do you very little good. 
If, however, you concentrate your mind upon a 
single muscle or set of muscles for three minutes 
each day, and say, ' Do thus and so,' and they re- 
spond, there will be immediate development. 
The more you waste the more you make. A man 
with strong concentration of mind will develop 
quicker in the quality of his muscles than he who 
cannot concentrate his mind upon the matter. 
The whole secret of my system lies in the knowl- 
edge of human anatomy — in knowing just where 
one is weak, and going straight to work bringing 
that part up to the standard of one's best feature 
— for there is a best feature in every man, as 
there is also a worst. The secret is to ' know 



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thyself,' as Pope says, and, knowing one's weak- 
ness, to concentrate the mind and energies upon 
that weakness with a view to correcting it. 

" Eugene Sandow." 



HOW TO CONCENTRATE 

You must build up a spiritual body of thought 
for yourself, by thinking truths over and over un- 
til they become part of your mind. You will be- 
come so positive in truth by this method that you 
will feel the vibrations of truth, and nothing else. 
But this is a practice that must be made the work 
of a lifetime. The fruitage from it will be a 
spiritual body that shall grow and develop in 
power and dominion throughout all the progres- 
sions of spiritual life. 

The way to overcome outside thoughts is to cul- 
tivate your own thinking power by systematic ef- 
fort. Have some special studies in Truth that 
are interesting to you, carry them with you, and 
use them as a means of concentration for the de- 
velopment of your mental power. 

The Spirit flows into the body only through the 
channels of one's thoughts and feelings. In the 
thought or feeling of God there is unlimited heal- 
ing and transforming power, and as the mind is 
exalted to feel and think as God thinks and feels, 
the thought power which creates perfection be- 
comes the inspiration of the body, and the nega- 
tive mind of the body evolves into an image of its 
peace and perfection, making visible the God- 
idea. 

The mind lives in and senses through every 

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nerve of the body. The will of the mind is done, 
consciously or unconsciously, in every particle of 
physical substance; thus you see your body is re- 
sponsive to mental force. And as your mind is 
attuned to the Mind which prevails in the order 
and harmony of the universe, the atoms of your 
nature will obey the infinite Law which planets 
and suns obey, and will manifest the harmony and 
health which is the natural expression of God's 
perfect life. There is life in unlimited abun- 
dance. There is intelligence and power sufficient 
for every need, and you are given the free will 
to use and organize all the potencies of the Di- 
vine Mind in the building of a temple of health 
that shall fulfill your ideal and make your under- 
standing of the goodness and power of Elohim 
visible to mortals. 



WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES 

The transcendent force called thought links the 
human organism to the inmost source of power, 
and endows man with the ability to overcome the 
limitations of matter. And whence the birth of 
this wonderful force of thought? It is born in 
matter. 

We gain a new conception of the latent God 
power crystallized in matter when we realize the 
fact that matter is the mother of thought. The 
forces of Mind become involved in matter before 
matter evolves thought. Matter is the mother, 
Spirit is the father of thought. Mother Nature 
gives birth to intelligence, the seed of which is 
from God. (Read the third paragraph on page 
28). 

In the history of the evolution of the world we 
read that the nebulous fire-mist crystallized into 
a planet of solid rock. Through the eons of time 
the solid rock evolved from its substance all the 
forms of life and all the forms of intelligence 
with which the planet is graced at the present 
time. Think of it ! from the rock man's form has 
come. All the glory and beauty in the world 
were stored as a possibility in that ancient granite 
sphere. Does it not awaken within us a new 
sense of the presence of power — of Omnipo- 
tence — to think of the vast possibilities of life 

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stored within the simplest lump of clay? We call 
it dirt. We tread under foot with the feeling of 
repugnance the mother of our physical forces and 
faculties, and do not recognize her unlimited pos- 
sibilities as the negative nature of Omnipotence, 
of God. 

Truly we are waking to a wonderful vision of 
the presence of God, as all and in all. Even ma- 
terialistic science has begun to recognize that what 
was believed to be dead, inert matter, crystal or 
metal, has the attribute of sensation. So the 
truth long promulgated by Mental Science, that 
All is Mind, is now being demonstrated as fact 
by conservative, materialistic science. 

Thought is matter in motion. Thought is the 
most refined, the most potent activity of matter. 
The organism of man is the product of the pro- 
gressive evolution of matter, inspired by the 
brooding Presence of the Infinite Spirit; from this 
most complex organization of man is born the 
sublime product called thought, that imponder- 
able spiritual power which transcends the laws of 
negative existence. 

In man matter becomes self-conscious and in- 
telligent. Omnipotence has evolved itself to self- 
conscious manhood. The utmost capacity of 
mortal, understanding cannot comprehend what 
the deific principle, omniactive, has already accom- 
plished. How shall we grasp the wonders that 
lie before us in the unfolding future? We now 
know that matter is undeveloped mind; that the 
attributes and potencies of God slumber in mat- 
ter. 



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Through the ages of evolution every type of 
animal has added a little more development to the 
brain substance; we are gradually increasing our 
thought-producing capacity. The brain is of 
finer texture and the nervous system is more com- 
plex in the human than in the animal form. The 
force generated in the brain and present in all 
the nerves is the thinker and the doer — the per- 
sonality. 

Every active creature is a demonstration of the 
power of mind over matter. The lifting of the 
hand is the revelation of the power of thought 
over matter. We have been exercising dominion 
over our flesh without being conscious of the fact 
and without realizing the possibilities of con- 
scious control in that very dominion. 

The body is an electro-magnetic battery for 
the generation of mental energy. The seminal 
fluid is the essence of all the chemical elements 
in the food. From it develop brain and nerve 
cells ; from it are also generated by the mysterious 
alchemy of life the most spiritual and refined pow- 
ers of mind. Animals and men have progressed 
with the development of the brain, and the brain 
has developed from the conserved vital fluid, 
which has served as a basis for new mental struc- 
ture and a greater capacity for thought. 

Having come to the recognition of the truth 
that I am all mind, that every cell of my body 
has the capacity for intelligent action and is re- 
sponsive to my will, I desire to cultivate this 
latent mind of my flesh so that my will shall be 
done throughout my whole mental organization. 
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It is essential, first of all, that there be no 
waste of the seminal fluid, for this is the matter 
from which thought force is generated. A man 
or woman lacking vital force cannot be strong in 
mind. As his inheritance from the lower ani- 
mal species man has received strong sexual pro- 
pensities. With animals preying upon each other, 
and man warring against man, nature expended 
her force in the perpetuation of species and de- 
veloped the sexual instinct to that end. Now, 
with the highest type evolved and an era of uni- 
versal peace at hand, the force heretofore ex- 
pended in the generation of children, or for mere 
sensual gratification, can be conserved for the 
higher development of individuality. 

The animal is an undeveloped and transitional 
form of man. Now that we have attained to man- 
hood, with self-conscious understanding of our 
possibilities as mental creatures, let us lay aside 
the propensities and the selfish habits of animals 
for the full enjoyment and expansion of our men- 
tal powers. Until man has gained conscious do- 
minion over the animal propensities and turned 
all the sexual force into mental power obedient to 
his will, he has not become initiated into the real 
enjoyment of life nor made conditions for the 
permanent health of his body. Perfect health of 
body, as well as the continual regeneration of the 
tissues, to the elimination of old age, is possible 
for all by the application of this principle of the 
conservation of vital energy along with the con- 
scious control of the organs by the will. 

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skull. It extends the ramifications of its struc- 
ture through the whole organism. Wherever 
there is need of more intelligent action in the body 
the nerves have formed into small brain cen- 
ters. The blind grow brain cells in the tips of 
the fingers, and through these new centers of sen- 
sation are able to distinguish colors. The vari- 
ous plexuses are at about the stage of develop- 
ment of the animal brain — subconscious or 
instinctively conscious. As the mind of an ani- 
mal may be developed in intelligence, so may 
these centers of mental energy within the body be 
developed to a degree of intelligence equal to the 
main center in the head. We can direct the in- 
telligent force of our thought to any organ in the 
body and cooperate with the intelligence in the 
organ to its renewal in strength and restoration to 
health. A little personal experience may help to 
make this clearer. 

I was awakened during the night by an intense 
neuralgic pain in the nerves of my teeth. It 
called for immediate relief. Just as soon as I be- 
came fully conscious I felt that I had dominion 
over those nerves and could relieve them by 
thought alone. They were merely demanding 
their proper nourishment. I turned the full in- 
tensity of my thought to supplying the nerves with 
healing substance, and in a few minutes they were 
satisfied and at peace. 

In treating patients, whether present or ab- 
sent, I have found that many disturbed and dis- 
eased conditions have their cause in a depleted 
condition of one of the sub-brains in the body. 



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It is enough to focus the thought power upon the 
weakened center, infusing it with new life and 
strength, to heal and harmonize the diseased con- 
dition. 

We have the directing of an intelligent force 
which is capable of reorganizing the substance and 
structure of the flesh; we can so infuse the body 
with thought force that its latent intelligence will 
be developed, and with the awakening of new in- 
telligence in our flesh will come new vitality and 
new power, until the will has the myriads of its 
cells so responsively obedient that it is almighty 
in its organism, and discord and disease can no 
longer enter. 

Every center will be sensitive to thought, and 
will generate sufficient thought to carry on the 
work of its department perfectly. All the senses 
will be attuned to a new octave of vibration, giv- 
ing birth to clairvoyance, clairaudience, and psy- 
chometry; and so spiritual will the whole mind be- 
come that the intuition of man will be able to 
partake of all the wisdom stored in the omniscient 
Mind. 



MENTAL INFLUENCE AT A 
DISTANCE 

That each individual is a mental dynamo, con- 
stantly generating a radiant force by his thoughts 
and feelings, is not so hard to believe since the 
discovery of wireless telegraphy. 

When we understand how a wireless transmit- 
ter can radiate Hertzian waves for thousands of 
miles, and how the same waves can be " sensed " 
by delicately attuned instruments so far away, it 
is not hard to see that the spirit of man can be 
affected by the spiritual vibrations of another 
spirit with whom he is in sympathetic relationship 
though separated by a great distance, physically. 

The ability of organized forms to exert an in- 
fluence at a distance, whether magnetic or tele- 
pathic, is beautifully illustrated by the following 
experiments of a noted scientist. 

" This professor had two ailanthus trees in his 
yard and these suggested the idea to him of ob- 
taining from Japan some eggs of the ailanthus 
silk worm. He got a few, hatched the larvae and 
watched anxiously for the appearance of the first 
moths from the cocoons. He put one of the 
moths in a wicker cage and hung it on one of the 
ailanthus trees. This was a female moth. 

" On the same evening he took a male moth 
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him loose, having previously marked him by tying 
a silken cord about his abdomen, so as to be able 
to identify him. The idea was to find out if the 
two moths would come together for the purpose 
of mating, these two being the only ones of their 
species within a distance of a hundred miles. In 
the morning the two moths were found to be in 
the same cage, the female having been able to 
attract her mate from a distance of a mile and 
a half." — Searchlight. 

The Rev. Isaac K. Funk, LL.D., gives the fol- 
lowing illustration of thought transference: 

" By an arrangement with Dr. M. A. Vreeder, 
of Lyons, N. Y., a medical scientist of wide repute, 
I in Brooklyn drew the figure of a fish and then 
pointed to the zenith. Sensitives whom Dr. 
Vreeder had at his office told him at that moment 
that I drew a fish and pointed to the zenith. No 
one but myself, 400 miles distant, could have 
known either fact by any scientifically recognized 
method of communication. This seems to point 
to long distance telepathy. Similar facts are oc- 
curring in many places. Will not the press be 
hospitable to them and closely verify and report 
them minutely? Nature in this way may be whis- 
pering to our dull senses of forces and laws, more 
subtle and vastly more important than those that 
gave us wireless telegraphy." 



A REMARKABLE CURE BY 
SUGGESTION 

The following copy of a letter sent to Bishop 
Fallows by Mrs. Marion Foster Washburn con- 
tains a valuable lesson in the use of audible sug- 
gestion. It opens to mothers a new field of in- 
fluence, showing how children can be healed by 
suggestions given during sleep. Suggestions tend- 
ing to correct bad habits and strengthen the char- 
acter may be made in the same way. Wonderful 
possibilities in child culture are contained in this 
method of suggestion. The account of the cure 
is especially valuable in showing the far reaching 
effects of " suggestion " in the changing of phys- 
ical tissues. 

In the voluminous literature relating to men- 
tal therapeutics, there can be found no stronger 
testimony than this given by Mrs. Washburn. 
Mrs. Marion Foster Washburn is the wife of a 
prominent physician, and has been both corre- 
sponding secretary and president of the Indiana 
State Federation of Women's Clubs. 

Elkhart, Ind., November 23, 1904. 
t] My Dear Bishop Fallows: 

I hardly know how to tell you about John's 
cure, it is such a long story. The newspaper ac- 
count was far from accurate. The whole thing 

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took place over three years ago, but I suppose the 
fact that John has stayed well so long, and not 
only stayed well but got quite appallingly strong, 
is only added proof to the thoroughness of the 
cure. 

He was hurt by falling downstairs and striking 
the base of his brain when he was only three years 
old. He was paralyzed on one side — the left — 
so that he could only walk a few steps without 
falling. His left eye rolled in under his nose. 
His tongue and throat were paralyzed so that his 
speech was very thick, and swallowing so difficult 
that it often produced vomiting. We suppose 
that a blood clot was formed and pressed upon 
the pneumogastric center in the brain, because he 
had a terrible cough, like whooping cough, often 
protracted until he vomited blood or blood spurted 
from his nose. His breathing was bad at all 
times — that is, irregular and difficult, but very 
much worse at night when it was stertorous, like 
that of a person in apoplexy. It could be heard 
down two nights of stairs. At night, also, his 
throat had a trick of contracting spasmodically 
after every third or fourth breath, and then he 
would struggle frightfully for air. 

As the newspaper account says, we called in 
the best counsel obtainable. We had Drs. Bill- 
ings, Brower, Lyman, King, Patrick and others, 
including oculists like Allport and Fuller. All of 
them — except Dr. Fuller, who saw him after he 
was on the road to recovery — said he could not 
live a year. Some called it tuberculosis of the 
brain; others a brain tumor, but all said he must 
die. My own father prognosed a spread of the 
difficulty, brought about by the enlargement of 
the tumor or clot, which was evidently involving 



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greater and greater areas. In that case I had 
to expect blindness, deafness and finally feeble- 
mindedness and death. 

One night, in utter despair, after helping the 
poor boy to fight for his breath hour after hour, 
I just prayed the Lord hard that John might die; 
the torture was too terrible. I suppose the dear 
Lord knew what I meant, that I wanted relief 
for the child so intensely that I was willing to 
give him up that he might find rest; and so He 
answered what I meant instead of what I said. 
For immediately after praying I fell into a deep 
sleep — even John must have slept, for I was 
not roused, and his slightest stir always roused 
me. And when I awakened in the morning the 
whole plan of treatment was clear as crystal in 
my mind. The elements of the idea had been 
there all the time, because I had read with my 
husband, and had seen him do wonderful things 
with suggestion. But the notion of applying it 
to a case of mechanical injury to the brain, like 
John's, had never occurred to either of us. Now, 
however, I remembered an article by Prof. Elmer 
Gates, who* said that under suggestion he had 
known sound brain and nerve cells to move over 
and take the place of injured ones. 

I began with John's breathing, because that dis- 
tressed him the most, and threatened many times 
a night to end his life by suffocation. So I made 
him look at a silver dollar, so held that it reflected 
the light of a candle straight into his eyes. Then 
I kept repeating: " Now you are going to sleep, 
but no matter how sound asleep you are, you will 
hear mamma and do as she tells you." This was 
when he went to sleep at night. During the day 
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an upper and a lower, that the lower one was sick, 
but the upper one was all right, and that I was 
going to teach the upper side to take care of the 
lower one while he was asleep just as I took care 
of him while he slept. He agreed heartily and 
was eager for the new performance. 

Well, he soon went to sleep, of course, and 
then I put my mouth to his ear and ordered him 
to breathe just as I breathed. When he got out 
of time with me, I roused him by tapping him 
sharply on the shoulder. 

" You are forgetting," I said, sternly. " You 
are to mind mamma, no matter how sound asleep 
you are. Breathe now." 

He was not used to sharp speech, and some- 
times he would murmur : 

" Are you speaking cross to me, mamma? " 

" No, dear," I would answer. " Not to you, 
just to your brain." 

Sometimes he would slip from my control and 
I have had to dash water in his face to rouse him, 
and then use my silver dollar and put him to 
sleep all over again. It seemed to be just natural 
sleep, sometimes very profound, but just sleep, 
with fixed attention. He was never cataleptic at 
these times, though once, in the daytime, I in- 
duced this state. But I did not want it. My 
idea was to utilize natural sleep, to keep every- 
thing as near normal as possible. As you see, I 
discontinued the treatment, simple as it was, as 
soon as I could with safety and comfort. Along 
the line of that attention I believed the nervous 
energy flowed, and where it went cell growth and 
proliferation were increased and new tissues built. 

From eight at night till two in the morning — 
at which hour he always grew quieter — I regu- 



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lated his breathing like this, kneeling beside him, 
my mouth at his ear. I kept this up for two 
months. At the end of that time he was so far 
cured as to be perfectly comfortable, though his 
left side was still weaker than his right, his eyes 
were a little crossed, and he still had spells of 
terrible headache, relieved by a nose-bleed. 
From that on we just built up his general health 
with no more special treatments, and our moving 
here into the country finished up the cure. Now 
at ten years of age he is as strong as a young ox 
on both sides, and weighs 118 pounds. His eyes 
are perfectly straight, but he wears glasses for 
school-work, as the oculist says his eyes did not 
develop during the time he was so ill — nearly 
three years altogether — but that he will catch 
up by the time he is grown and have as good eyes 
as any one. As for his mind he is unusually 
bright and competent. But then he always had a 
superior brain. That is why I could manage him 
so well. 

My love to Mrs. Fallows, and believe me faith- 
fully yours, 

Marion Foster Washburne. 



I AM ALL MIND 

CONSIDER THIS TRUTH, FOR IT IS THE KEY 
TO DOMINION 

The body is held in active organization by the 
mind. The mind is the positive pole and the 
body is the negative pole of the human battery. 
The food elements taken into the body are of the 
negative mind of the Whole, the substance of the 
negative pole of the universal Mind, and the in- 
dividual mind assimilates from the food taken 
into the body and from the atmosphere elements 
like unto itself, which it organizes into the visible 
expression of itself. The negative pole of the hu- 
man battery is just as important as the positive 
pole, and must be cared for and supplied with the 
proper elements in order to form a perfect bat- 
tery for the production of thought power, just as 
the battery which produces electric force must be 
fed with proper chemical elements to insure a cur- 
rent. 

It must be borne in mind that the positive mind 
is the organizing power, and every cell in the 
body is a particle of mind substance, held in obe- 
dience to the polarizing power of that positive 
mind. The cells that compose the flesh are bodies 
of thoughts. Every cell of the body is thought 
incarnated, and the organs, which are made up of 

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great multitudes of cells, can be educated by the 
positive mind of the individual; they can be in- 
fused with positive thoughts, so that the cells 
and organs will progress in the degrees of intelli- 
gence and manifest more of life, health, and per- 
fection, as the mind becomes more and more con- 
scious of its wonderful organizing power. 

The progress of the individual toward domin- 
ion is real only in the degree that he brings his 
negative mind into his higher realization of Con- 
sciousness, and causes each particle of his phys- 
ical cosmos to evolve and show forth the divine 
intelligence which he has appropriated and indi- 
vidualized around his positive I AM center. 

Lustful thoughts and desires fill the nature with 
a consuming fire, which poisons the blood and 
burns out the nerve centers, causing disease and 
pain in the body and weakness and discourage- 
ment to the mind, hindering the human being from 
enjoying the peaceful, vitalizing influx which flows 
in from the soul life. Joy and satisfaction are at- 
tributes of the God-mind, and the soul as an in- 
dividualized expression of the Over-Soul contains 
all the essentials of happiness within itself, and 
can impart the only true happiness to its human 
mind and body in the degree that it can gain full 
and free expression through the positive and nega- 
tive poles of mind which it has organized. 

Through pure and righteous thinking, or knowl- 
edge of the All-Good, the mind becomes the con- 
scious thinking instrument of the soul, the 
thoughts are filled with the positive light and joy 
of the soul; and in this way the soul, through edu- 



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cation, gains dominion over the various faculties 
of the mind and inspires the will to hold the lower 
realms of the body consciousness in subjection un- 
til all thoughts and desires are educated and trans- 
muted into positive, pure intelligence, like unto 
the wisdom of God. 

When the soul has gained the balance of power 
over the instincts and desires of the lower con- 
sciousness, then its love and wisdom create in the 
physical nature a perfect equipoise of the magnetic 
and electric energies, which is health and happi- 
ness to the whole being. Through lack of knowl- 
edge of this wonderful power of soul adjustment 
and expression as the secret of physical and men- 
tal peace, mortals place themselves on the plane of 
animal experience, and seek for happiness through 
sexual indulgence. The magnetic man seeks sat- 
isfaction from the electric woman, and vice versa, 
but there is no lasting happiness attained there- 
by; only a momentary gratification, which depletes 
their systems and weakens their minds, in that 
carnal desires grow stronger by being gratified and 
gain dominion over the will and reason. The 
negative pole of the human battery is exerting its 
power over the positive pole, so that there is a 
reversal of all the currents in the nature. 

Individuality is weakened also, because, when 
the character of the male is the more positive, 
the female will gradually lose her positiveness, 
and begin to feel that she is an inferior creature 
to the male. If the female is the positive ele- 
ment, the male will lose self-respect and power to 
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body will become polarized to the will of the one 
who has the strongest mind. So it is evident that 
sexual intercourse is conducive neither to real 
health nor happiness. The electric and magnetic 
forces are not balanced and conserved for the 
generation of the inner body of spiritual power, 
but are expended to no purpose. All physical and 
mental forces find their balance and adjustment in 
the individual soul in the same way that the mag- 
netic and electric forces, as well as the mental pow- 
ers of the universe, are controlled and balanced 
by the Soul of the Whole. 



A GENERAL HEALING TREATMENT 

Retire by yourself, and study and meditate upon 
these thoughts. When the mind is filled with 
them, lie down and relax the body and mind, that 
the healing power may operate freely. Practise 
daily an hour or more. 

Thou omnipresent Master of all forms of 
life, I am one with Thee; I am Thee embodied 
and expressed, and Thee I praise for my life and 
all of life's blessings. 

My soul is a living, radiant form of life; a 
glorious, intelligent individualization of the uni- 
versal Life and Spirit of God. 

My soul, my real, everlasting self, is alive in 
God, and every cell and organ and function of my 
body is infused with the living, intelligent power 
of my soul. I am alive with the life of God. 

1 am filled with the invigorating vitality of 
everlasting Life. 

I am an expression of the most positive heal- 
ing Potency in existence, and my recognition that 
I am life itself thrills my whole nature with the 
divine healing energy. 

I am invigorated and healed by the everlasting 
Presence of the living God. 

Pain cannot exist in any part of my nature, be- 
cause the merciful, soothing power of life is now 
satisfying every cell with the oil of joy. The joy- 

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ous sunshine of life penetrates into every part of 
my being, and with glad understanding I affirm : 

I am life, joyous life; I am peaceful, perfect 
life. 

I feel that I am united to the universal life and 
power of God, and all his joyous strength is fo- 
cused in my nature, making me so positive with 
his perfect energy that all disease and pain are 
overcome and transformed into harmony and per- 
fection. 

I am in tune with infinite life and peace. 

My brain polarizes the intelligence and wisdom 
of life. All the faculties of my soul find free ex- 
pression through the sensitive substance of my 
brain. 

My sex nature is pure, holy life, free from all 
condemnations of sin or impurity. These organs 
generate unlimited vitality and strength, sufficient 
for all my needs. They generate the fluids which 
build me a strong, positive brain and vital nervous 
system. I am divine creative energy. 

My heart is filled with the peace and love of 
the Christ life, and I am satisfied. My heart 
cannot be overcome by fear or any oppressive feel- 
ing, for it is strong with the love of life. My 
blood is enriched and vitalized with the goodness 
and purity of life. 

All is Life. There is no lack of happy, healing 
life. I inspire life with every breath, and my 
lungs appropriate the ozone of life, which feeds 
my blood with the exhilarating manna of the sun- 
blessed atmosphere. 

My stomach is a battery of digestive force and 



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energy, constantly assimilating food; it rejoices 
in the task, for it is an intelligent digestive mag- 
net for all the elements that the body requires. I 
am the digestive energy of almighty Life. 

I recognize that all my organs are infused with 
my soul intelligence, and all are conscious of their 
duties and work together for the health and har- 
mony of my organism. 

The free, cleansing Spirit of life flows freely 
through my bowels, and their operations are not 
hindered by any conservative thoughts, for I do 
not withhold the free mercy of God from any 
creature. 

My liver is the activity of life energized with 
positive, active intelligence. 

I recognize that every atom of my spleen is 
intelligent, living substance, obeying the soul's 
purpose in my physical economy. 

I praise the power of endless life and activity 
in my kidneys, and know that they are the peace- 
ful, perfect substance of life, ever active in cleans- 
ing my nature of all impurities. 

I can outgrow and overcome every weakness, 
for I am a magnet for the vitality that fills all 
space. I am constantly drawing in the vitality 
from the all-pervading life of God in nature. I 
praise Thee, O Thou all-wise and all-loving Pres- 
ence, that Thou art imparting to me the power of 
thy mighty Life which enables me to outgrow 
every defective and inharmonious condition, and 
I realize the dominion and happiness imparted 
from thy indwelling Presence in my soul. 

Glory to God for the healing, perfecting power 
of Life. All is life. 



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These words may not seem true when they are 
first read, but by constant repetition they will cre- 
ate a strong faith in the power and presence of 
life, which will allow the Spirit of Life to come 
into expression. 

" My words are Spirit and they are Life," says 
the Spirit of life in Christ, and, " if a man keep 
my words he shall never see death." 

Faith can be created by the wonderful power of 
the word of truth, and through faith the healing 
power of God can come into manifestation. 



TEACH YOUR BODY TO THINK! 

Mental activity in animal and human organisms 
develops brain centers. The more intelligent the 
animal or man, the more highly developed are the 
brain centers. It is a common notion that the 
brain is limited to the head, but this is not true. 
Wherever in the body there is need of mental ac- 
tion, there the nerve substance develops a brain 
center, a sub-brain. 

There is much more intelligent activity going 
on in the body than we are conscious of. All the 
subconscious or involuntary actions of mind, like 
the action of the heart or the breathing of the 
lungs during sleep, are carried cp by the instinctive 
operation of the mind active in the various sub- 
brains or nerve plexuses located in differents parts 
of the body. 

A vast amount of intelligence is active through 
these little brains. All hereditary thoughts and 
feelings, and all the old thought of {he past which 
seems to be outgrown, are stored in the subjective 
chambers of thought, and through these sub-cen- 
ters influence the formation of the atoms in 
health or disease. The hypnotist gets control 
over the intelligence of the subjective mind active 
through these centers and performs wonders of 
healing, because this subjective intelligence is the 
organizing power of the flesh. 

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We can gain control of all these subconscious 
centers of mental activity, and thus gain dominion 
over the whole body. For instance, the heart is 
controlled by a sub-brain or plexus. This plexus 
may be influenced by conscious thought. We can 
will that strength shall be developed in the heart, 
and the message will travel through the nerves 
and take up its abode in the heart center, and from 
there influence the heart's development in strength. 
So with every center. 

Man is superior to the animal in intelligence be- 
cause his long evolution has developed the activ- 
ities in the head-brain to the degree of conscious 
thought. How wonderful will be the man of the 
future who will so develop the activity of every 
brain center in his body, that he will be able to 
think consciously in every center. He will think 
in every part of his body. He will have full con- 
trol over every function in his body. He will be 
able to do consciously whatever is now done by 
the hypnotized subject, and more. The hypno- 
tized subject, in whom the subjective mind is 
obedient to the will of the operator, becomes clair- 
voyant. He can see what is happening at a dis- 
tance; or see all the activities in his own body or 
the body of another person, and diagnose diseased 
conditions. He can travel in thought to any part 
of the world and feel and hear anything, any- 
where; is clairaudient and practically omniscient. 
He can read the thoughts of others and communi- 
cate with departed spirits; in fact, seems in touch 
with all minds in the whole mental universe. Not 
all hypnotized subjects can do all these things, 



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but according to their mental development they 
can see or feel or hear sup ernatur ally, that is, be- 
yond the limitations of the natural senses. 

Jesus, and the masters and adepts of India and 
other countries, the saints of ancient and modern 
religions, and the mediums and psychics of the 
present time all reveal the possibilities that await 
the development of the whole mind of man. 

The brain centers must be purified of all the 
limiting beliefs of the race mind, in order that 
a new life may flow through them to the manifes- 
tation of perfect health. We cannot do what we 
do not believe possible, so faith in our unlimited 
possibilities must be developed. We must free 
the mind, conscious and subconscious, from all 
ideas of bondage and limitation. For instance, 
the sex center is limited in its expression of life 
by the condemnation of millions of minds. All 
the life flowing into that center is stamped as im- 
pure. Therefore the thought of impurity must 
be denied out of the mind and the sexual plexus 
must be freed from the belief that its life is im- 
pure. Its life is of God, born of his pure Spirit. 
If we believe that any organ is impure or limited 
in its operation, we turn the intelligence in that 
organ to creating impurity and to limiting the flow 
of life. There is a hint here which applies to all 
departments of thought. 

Especial attention should be given to healing, 
harmonizing and increasing the power of the solar 
plexus or abdominal brain. This center controls 
the digestion and assimilation of food. When it 
becomes disturbed, the whole body suffers. The 



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solar plexus is most often weakened by sexual in- 
dulgence. It depends upon the conserved vital 
essences for its strength and power, and when 
these are deficient it loses the power to supply all 
other centers with proper nourishment. To try 
to restore the deficiency by overeating only in- 
creases its burden, causing it to draw for strength 
upon the brain, heart, and other centers. Neu- 
ralgia, headache, nervous heart trouble and many 
other painful symptoms are due to weakness of 
the solar plexus. 

In blessing or centering the thought upon any 
part of the body, there is an increased power given 
to the part by placing the hands, or the tips of 
the fingers, over the part treated. When treat- 
ing the solar plexus, place the tips of the fingers 
over the stomach. 

The following affirmations will suggest others : 

My solar plexus is alive with omnipotent Life. 

My solar plexus is alive with soul power from 
God. 

A living, glowing sun of vital power is situated 
in my solar plexus, filling my digestive organs with 
unlimited strength and power. 

Unlimited life, strength, and power flow into 
this center, enabling the organs to carry on the 
digestion and assimilation of food without any 
distress. 

This center is storing up power to distribute 
to all the other nerve centers. 

This center is a living dynamo of vital force, 
radiating its intelligent force to every part of the 
body. 



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I am now generating unlimited healing vitality 
in my solar plexus. 

Six of the brain centers are called sacred cen- 
ters, because in them the soul of man functions. 
The six sacred centers are the front brain, the 
throat, the heart, the solar plexus, the rectal 
plexus and the sexual plexus. Bless all these 
centers with love and wisdom, for they are the 
centers through which the soul, an intelligence su- 
perior to both the subconscious and conscious 
minds, comes into conscious expression. Until 
the soul attains some conscious power in the or- 
ganism its main center is the solar plexus. The 
solar plexus is a ganglia of nerves located back 
of the stomach, radiating, like a sun, out to the 
various organs. 

Think of the soul as a globule of light and 
power situated in the center of the body. As 
the six centers are infused with thought force 
the intelligence in them increases, and as they be- 
come more positive the soul gains power to ex- 
press through them. Then the real regeneration 
of the flesh begins, to be carried on to the end of 
this present existence, and continued, in the spir- 
itual form, on into the world celestial. 

Our development is more a matter of ages 
than of years. The soul is an organization of the 
wisdom and love of God — his Glory — and it 
has within its memory all its past accumulated wis- 
dom and experience; but the personality, under 
the most perfect conditions on this plane, can ex- 
press only a small part of the wisdom and power 



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stored in the soul, because of the limited and nega- 
tive degree of mind in this world. So we con- 
tinue to live to the highest while here, knowing 
that when the real race is begun in the spiritual 
spheres we shall be stronger for having worn the 
weights of limitation in this practice sphere of ex- 
perience. 

Let us not be troubled by time. Let us each 
day be filled with the peace and joy that comes 
from doing the best that can be done under the 
circumstances. 






USE YOUR WILL TO OVERCOME 
INDIGESTION 

If your food distresses you, hold the following 
in mind very positively: 

I know that what I have eaten will not up- 
set or distress my stomach. I know that food is 
an exceedingly negative thing in comparison with 
my will, and I deny that it has any power to dis- 
turb me. My will is one with the will of God, 
whose mighty will, focused in my will, gives me 
the power to overcome. I am more positive than 
any food, and food must and does serve me. I 
will not, and hence do not, serve it. I am mas- 
ter of all things, and I will -demonstrate this fact 
and prove my true position amidst my surround- 
ings. 

I will rise to meet any distressing symptoms 
with all the assertive power of my individuality, 
and I resolve not to have pain or distress in head 
or stomach. Nothing can compel me, the master, 
to submit to such a negative cause. God has 
given me dominion over all things. I know this ! 
I will be free. My understanding and my will 
power now combine to bring this result. 

The understanding and the will power must 
work together; neither can get the result alone, 
for understanding is the implement with which 
the will works. The will is the master ; both are 

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essential to complete execution. First the under- 
standing of the goodness and power of God in 
everything, and second the constantly increasing 
will and determination to make his goodness and 
power manifest in all ways. Understanding will 
avail nothing if you have not the will to execute. 
All should apply themselves to the study which 
begets understanding of truth, as it is needed for 
mental building material. 

As you get understanding, cultivate a strong, 
positive determination to use this wonderful ma- 
terial in building a firm foundation on which you 
can erect a grand and beautiful life structure 
for yourself. Never let anything stand in your 
way; keep on trying in the face of every obstacle; 
and let nothing make you yield. With such de- 
termination as this, as you continue to add to your 
understanding, you can overcome every obstacle. 
You can face every force in your world : — it mat- 
ters not how powerful it is — and it will, in the 
proper time and place, become subservient to your 
mastership. You are a divine organization of 
intelligence and love and will combined, and as 
you keep on striving and aggregating strength to 
the strength you have by this time acquired 
through the force of your determination, all 
things, by a God-given law, will give way. But 
remember, subservient things acknowledge you 
only in proportion as you assert your Self. All 
things are bound, through this positive assertion, 
to acknowledge your mastership. You can do all 
you will to do ; this is dominion. 

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not understand the power vested in them. We 
tell them all that they need not lack health, for 
health and strength are organized in them; such 
is the law of life. These beliefs that they mani- 
fest are not absolute truth; they are negative be- 
liefs. They can be overcome by positive beliefs, 
founded on living Truth. Life and Health are 
two great realities that have always existed and 
will continue to exist forever. 



THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND AND SOUL 
CONSCIOUSNESS 

The nature of man consists of three states of 
consciousness — physical, mental, and soul con- 
sciousness. The deductions of scientific minds 
embrace the explored field of the conscious mind, 
and the but partially explored field of the sub- 
conscious mind, but do not take into consideration 
that mystical but most potent field of soul con- 
sciousness. To them the mind is the soul. 

We know from the development of our own soul 
perception that the soul is a deific individual de- 
scended from the inner sphere of Omniscience to 
the outer sphere of mortal consciousness; that it 
is a Seed of Divinity planted in the earth-mind. 
Its roots are in the earth, but its life and powers 
are from the God-Sun of heaven, and in heaven 
will its fruits be gathered for the Father's use. 

The soul is a Word of eternal wisdom, life, 
and love, that shall increase in creative potency 
throughout eternity. The conscious and subcon- 
scious degrees of mind constitute the personality, 
but the soul is the real individual. When the 
awakened soul speaks, it is the voice of God. 

Minds of materialistic tendency are apt to be- 
come as deeply engrossed in the phenomena of the 
subsconcious mind, or " subliminal conscious- 
ness," as scientists have been in the phenomena of 

the material realm, and it is in accord with the 

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process of mental evolution that it should be so; 
but those who want to know God and who desire 
to find the inspiration and healing of his divine 
life and power, must look to the eternal Princi- 
ple of Truth — to God Himself — though they 
have only intuition as a guide. Intuition, which 
reveals the eternal principles of the divine na- 
ture, will demonstrate that it is the supreme au- 
thority for truth. If intuition is followed the soul 
will be recognized and fertilized by recognition 
and devoted love until it becomes a dominant 
power, healing and spiritualizing both the con- 
scious and subconscious states of mind and pre- 
paring them for the grandest and mightiest exhi- 
bition of spiritual power. 

The subconscious mind is an organization of all 
the thoughts and feelings, of all the mental ac- 
tivities of the mind from earliest infancy. In or- 
der to rightly comprehend the subconscious mind, 
it must be clearly understood that mental forces 
organize into concrete form in the mental plane 
in the same way that physical forces aggregate 
themselves into material forms in the physical 
world. The mind, then, is a mental body gen- 
erated from the forces of thought and feeling. It 
is a spiritual entity. It is the formed character 
of the person, and just as soon as it becomes a 
positive character it changes the hereditary form 
of the flesh to express its own development. 
Negative characters have not the mental power to 
transform the flesh, therefore it is the first duty 
of mental instruction to develop a more positive 
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When a thought seems to have been forgotten 
it still exists in the subconscious state of the mind. 
Persons and things long forgotten will reappear 
during the dream activity of the subconscious 
mind; faces will appear as fresh as when seen 
years before. The phenomena of hypnotism 
open up wonderful facts in regard to- the possibil- 
ities and powers of the subconscious realm. 

The whole mind of man may be compared to 
a circle through which a line is drawn, making a 
division of 1-100 and 99-100. The small seg- 
ment of the circle represents as much of all the 
thought activities of the personality as the brain 
is conscious of; the 99-100 represent the subcon- 
scious storehouse of mental activity. 

The planet, as a whole, has a mind — a sub- 
conscious mental realm in which thought activities 
and mind-bodies have their existence. As there 
is a universal space which provides the elements 
for our physical bodies and their development, so 
there is a universal Mind in which the mental or- 
ganization has its life and expression — a realm 
in which the mind-body or spiritual body exists 
after its physical counterpart dies. It is a realm 
full of mysteries to the seeker after the phe- 
nomena of the subconscious, full of paradoxes, in- 
congruities, and deceptions to those who do not 
accept the spiritualists' explanation of evil or un- 
developed spirits. What a pleasure it is to some 
mischievous spirit to play pranks upon some very 
learned man who, in earnest search for knowl- 
edge, has tapped the wires of the " subliminal con- 
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does not see the quality or character of the spirit 
personality that responds to him from the invisible 
realm of mind, and he is very likely to come to 
the conclusion, as some scientists already have, 
that the subliminal consciousness is a grand de- 
ceiver. 

Now in this subconscious side of the mind we 
find the intelligent force which must be properly 
trained and developed toward the healing of the 
body. There are two general methods in use, 
and they are both good. One is the method 
called " suggestion," whereby the subconscious 
mind is educated to turn its wonderful power to 
the healing of the diseased parts of the body. 
This method, persistently applied, will bring very 
beneficial results. The second method consists 
in thinking and speaking absolute truth. The 
suggestionist does not believe that there is any- 
thing deeper than the subconscious mind, and 
therefore he claims that so-called statements of 
truth are useful to those who imagine a soul, be- 
cause they work according to the law of sugges- 
tion. 

Our position is this: The conscious and sub- 
conscious degrees of man's mind are evolutions 
from matter; they are highly refined matter, or 
negative and undeveloped mind. The nature of 
God is eternal and omnipotent power, the source 
of all life and being. The soul of man is from 
above the mortal sphere of mind; it is an indi- 
vidualization of deific consciousness and partakes 
of the power of Deity; it is the image and like- 
ness of God in man. The soul, then, is the key 



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to immortal life and power. It must be recog- 
nized and awakened. And to awaken and mani- 
fest this divine power in us we affirm its being as 
a living truth. We take it as the foundation of 
our being, and upon it we build our mental habita- 
tion. It is the keynote of the mind, and if we 
sound this keynote, all the mind, conscious and 
subconscious, will come into harmony. 

We affirm: I Am Life; because the soul is 
eternal Life. We affirm: I am Health and 
Peace and Perfection; because the true I, the real 
individual, the soul, IS potentially the Health, 
Peace, and Perfection of God. We affirm: I 
am the Wisdom of God; because the soul is an 
organism vibrant with the light of the infinite Con- 
sciousness. 

The soul must be awakened by living the life 
of truth, expressing the thoughts and feelings of 
truth throughout every part of the mind and 
body, in order that the divine image of perfec- 
tion may transform the whole mind into a heav- 
enly, harmonious character. Then will the Spirit 
of God speak in the soul, giving angelic wisdom, 
and the soul will know the way of Life eternal 
and walk therein. 

Too many minds are passive recipients of im- 
pressions which come as suggestions from other 
minds, either incarnate or decarnate. Remember 
that every mind is sending out mental messages, 
and these messages enter and impress themselves 
upon negative minds. They may be good sugges- 
tions or they may be harmful. Many a negative 
mind has suddenly been inspired to commit a mur- 



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■ H I I ■ ■■■■■ I ■ — ' ■ I I I I ■■ I I N I I III— <fc^— 

der through the suggestion and desire of another 
personality, either incarnate or decarnate. A 
strong mind desired that his enemy should die; a 
negative mind fulfilled the desire. Execution 
does not cure criminals; it only sets them free to 
act out their vengeance in the mental atmosphere 
of the planet. 

" Sitting in the silence," or becoming nega- 
tively receptive, will open the mind to all sorts 
of impressions and suggestions from the invisible 
realm of Mind. To gain soul wisdom, affirma- 
tions of divine truth must be made until the whole 
mind is attuned to soul positiveness ; until the 
mind is vibrant with the joy of soul realization. 
Then the stillness that follows will not be nega- 
tive ; it will be a passivity overflowing with peace 
and health for the body, and in the soul com- 
munion that follows, the clouds of mortal dark- 
ness will be dissolved and the way will become 
clear, the guidance sure. 

The discovery of electricity and other physical 
forces has transformed the manner of existence 
on the planet, but these discoveries have brought 
neither peace nor health to humanity. Now that 
the occult forces of the subliminal realm are being 
tapped, terrific forces — marvelous mysteries — 
will be discovered; but these things will not bring 
peace or happiness to humanity. 

What will it profit a man if he gain the whole 
world, if he does not discover that which is of 
more value than the world — his own soul? 

Only by the harmonious unfoldment of the soul 
and the subjection of the mind to its proper ex- 



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pression of righteousness and truth, will the 
peace of God and the happiness of the angelic 
life be realized by mortals. When the awakened 
soul affirms the truth of its eternal Being, it is 
filled with the Spirit of Truth; it convinces the 
mind and body of its power, it compels health and 
harmony to be ; the soul beauty and grace are im- 
pressed upon and expressed through the negative 
nature, and God becomes manifest in the flesh. 



BECOMING ATTUNED TO THE SPIRIT 

Purity in thought, word, and deed is absolutely 
essential to any degree of health or spiritual 
power. 

Do you desire health from God, permanent 
health, which will bring to you the ever-increasing 
joy of conscious growth in spiritual dominion? 
Then you must make the conditions of mind neces- 
sary for the influx of the Vitality of Eternity. 
God, the Immaculate Spirit, is too pure to behold 
iniquity. God's universal Mind is the life and the 
mind of all things, but his Holy Spirit — which 
brings health and peace in its tender ministrations 
— abides in the more refined states of the uni- 
versal Mind. And only those who purify and re- 
fine their thoughts and feelings will enjoy the 
blessed realization of the Immaculate One. 
" The pure in heart shall see God." 

Jesus was willing to spend thirty years of his 
life educating and refining his nature, that the 
Holy Spirit might manifest its healing wisdom 
through Him; and He attained supreme power in 
healing and in manifesting Divinity. He attained 
to the highest point in human evolution, and his 
joy was great. While passing through the great- 
est trials He often spoke of his joy and peace. He 
was encompassed by the angels of Elohim, and 

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of the world, because He made his whole nature 
a pure magnet, attractive to the highest and holiest 
powers of Heaven. 

The greatest wisdom and the mightiest love are 
realized and expressed by the holiest angels and 
archangels of Heaven. When the emanations 
from the angelic sphere combine with those of the 
awakened soul, the healing power is strongest, 
because the emanations from the angels are so im- 
bued with universal love and sympathy that the 
curative potency is enhanced thereby. The Holy 
Spirit of God is organized in the angelic souls of 
Heaven, and through these angels, who once lived 
and suffered as mortals, this beneficent Spirit is 
directed in sympathy and compassion to the heal- 
ing and uplifting of mortals, wherever they can 
find an open door. 

We might desire, with all the intensity of our 
natures, to do something to save a man who was 
unconscious down amid the noxious gases of a 
mine, but the conditions would not allow us to en- 
ter. To the angelic presences, accustomed to life 
in the most harmonious states of the Mind of God, 
the animal lusts and discordant feelings of human 
life are as disturbing and bewildering as the gases 
of the mine would be to us. The magnetic and 
mental emanations from mortals who are living 
in the enjoyment of the ordinary pleasures of life, 
without aspiration for heavenly truth, fill the men- 
tal atmosphere with odors and vibrations so strong 
and disagreeable that only unregenerated spirits, 
not long departed from the earth plane, can re- 
main in close association with friends still incar- 



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nate. The high and holy ministers of God who 
inhabit Eternity cannot breathe and hold their con- 
sciousness amid such dense vapors. So we see 
the wisdom of Jesus Christ in retiring so often 
from the world in order to come into sympathetic 
relationship with the heavenly source of his power 
and receive anew the baptism from the Holy of 
Holies. We see the necessity for conditions 
within and without, if we would realize the holy 
healing power which was manifest through Jesus 
Christ, and which to-day is equally potent to heal 
and harmonize every child of God on earth who 
will fulfill the conditions necessary for its recep- 
tion. Do you think the great sympathy and love 
of God for each and every one of his creatures 
would leave one child in pain or suffering one mo- 
ment if the way were opened for his Spirit to reach 
that creature ? No ! God longs with infinite 
Love to bring each and every one to the conscious 
realization of his great peace and perfection, and 
it is the perpetual operation of his Love that is 
gradually lifting mankind from savagery to Di- 
vinity. 

Locked up in the chemical elements of the 
earth is far greater power than dynamite or elec- 
tricity, and by concentration of thought man may 
discover, and by mechanical skill operate, this 
power. Stored in the mental spaces all about and 
within the mind of man is a greater power, and 
this power is being discovered and applied in sug- 
gestion, thought-transference, and through the 
mediumistic phenomena at seances where invisible 
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time in the habiliments of matter and overcome all 
known laws of physics in levitating material ob- 
jects. And this mental power is being used to 
heal disease and create prosperity. 

But there is a power in God much greater and 
more satisfying in its operation than either ma- 
terial or mental power. Behind and within the 
purest degrees of all the universal forces of ex- 
istence abides the Supreme Controller, the Spirit 
of Almighty God, which is forever evolving and 
transforming all energies and forces to subserve 
its purpose of wisdom and love. It was this 
transforming power of God's Love that Jesus dis- 
covered and revealed to mortals; and it is this 
Spirit of universal Love which each of us must 
realize if we would know God. 

By purity of life we prepare the temple, and by 
deep devotion and holy aspiration we stir the 
depths of the soul into intense activity, and become 
a magnet for the Holy Spirit. The soul is of 
God; it came from God, and through it the Spirit 
will express to the mind and body. 

The soul in its incarnation into a form of flesh 
is like a seed that has been sown in the earth. 
It must be watered by our thoughts of recognition 
and quickened by our deep feelings of love for 
God. It has an affinity only for the truth of 
God's love ; the thoughts and feelings generated by 
earthly things becloud its faculties and hinder it 
from receiving its daily bread from the Father. 
If the mind of a person is centered wholly upon 
material things, the soul becomes isolated from 
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degree of awakening, it will tire of the dreariness 
and darkness of mortal vibrations, and when an 
occasion offers in the way of sickness or weakness 
of the body, it will sever its connections with the 
flesh and return to the freer state of spiritual life, 
causing death to the body. But it will still be 
burdened by its personal mind, which it must re- 
generate. The work of regeneration would have 
been much easier had the personal mind received 
and accepted the knowledge of spiritual truths be- 
fore death, because truth received from the mor- 
tal plane of understanding produces a deeper im- 
pression on the mind accustomed to dealing with 
material things. 

If the soul is not awakened, it cannot gain much 
realization of its oneness with the life and wis- 
dom of the Father, and consequently will not be 
able to recreate and hold the flesh in harmony 
and health. We very often find that it is suffi- 
cient to educate the soul to a realization of its one- 
ness with the Father in order to bring health to the 
flesh. 

There is no permanent health or happiness out- 
side the realization of the heavenly Presence. 
Many seek for health, as they have sought for 
happiness, in material things, and find it not; while 
if they would but make conditions for the ex- 
pression of the healing Love of the Father, much 
disease and suffering would be eliminated from 
their lives. Some reply that they have known 
pure and devoted Christian characters who have 
been the greatest sufferers. We know that they 
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God's love and goodness; in other words, they be- 
lieved in the power of evil to frustrate God's om- 
nipotent Goodness, and according to the laws of 
thought, their beliefs in evil hindered the manifes- 
tation of the Spirit of Love in their lives. Their 
fears and mistaken beliefs made them negative 
and receptive to inharmonious conditions. Their 
minds were not bright, hopeful and joyous with 
positive thoughts derived from a divine faith, and 
so the Spirit could not enter. 

We have known of those who have been deeply 
interested in all that tended to help humanity. 
They were faithful in church work, active in works 
of charity, giving the most of their time and 
energy to others; and then as they found their 
strength lessening, and many disturbances in their 
financial conditions, they began to doubt God. 
They had done much for Him, and what was He 
doing for them? He did not seem to care ho'w 
much they suffered or how poor they became. 
Was He just? Did He love them? Was there 
any God of love and wisdom at all? 

They fulfilled the second part of the Lord's 
commandment by loving their neighbor as them- 
selves, but failed to see the depth and breadth of 
the first part of the injunction: " Thou shalt love 
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind, soul 
and strength." They used their own strength 
and not the strength of the Father. If they had 
lived in the constant inspiration of his Presence, 
their souls would have gained new power daily; 
wisdom and vitality and a living spontaneity of joy 
would have filled their lives with gladness and 



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health. They would have radiated away all con- 
ditions and thoughts of disease from themselves 
and others. I know these things to be true, for 
I have lived in the old way and reaped pain and 
discouragement, and I have lived in the new way 
and reaped joyous health and prosperity. I find 
that the Spirit of. Love makes of us magnets for 
all things that we may desire when we live with 
it and allow its power to express through us. But 
if we do not spend some time daily in devotion to 
the Father, it may be readily seen that the Father 
will not be so strong in us for the manifestation of 
either his wisdom, his health or his prosperity. 

We know that if we seek first the Kingdom of 
God and his righteousness — not our own right- 
eousness — all things will be added, and this is 
done by fulfilling the great commandment of 
Jesus, which embraced all commandments. 



A POWERFUL STATEMENT 

The race has been taught for ages that evil is a 
self-existent force ; that there is a conscious power, 
or devil, working against the good of mankind. 

This is a negative belief arising from igno- 
rance, or a partial knowledge of the Goodness of 
the All-Intelligence. 

Positive knowledge reveals the truth that the 
intelligence in man, bird, beast, and all created 
things is good; in fact, very good. All created 
things are the intelligence of God manifesting and 
evolving through the successive steps of progres- 
sive life. All are growing continually from nega- 
tive to positive through the grades of developing 
intelligence, and will finally reach the development 
which will enable them to grasp the positive 
knowledge of eternal Truth, and work consciously 
with the one Intelligence, the Father of all created 
things. 

All is Good. Every step is good, even though 
it be a mis-step or seeming mistake, for through 
their mistakes, God's children learn which paths 
do not lead to happiness, and thus they advance in 
knowledge. 

This faith that all is good can become the salva- 
tion of each and every one from all the erroneous, 
devitalizing beliefs of the race. 

We should learn to recognize that all life is 

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truth on its own plane, and that in evolving and 
progressing, minds live in the experience of truth 
negative before advancing into the realm of truth 
positive. This will give us the patience of God 
with all the ideas and creeds of mortal mind which 
the race has evolved as it progressed through 
negative mind or nescience. 

ALL IS GOOD ! 

This is positive knowledge. 

This is the faith of God that overcomes mortal 
thoughts and beliefs. 

This is the revelation of Truth that heals and 
harmonizes all elements of mind and body. 

There is no real, or positive, evil. 

All so-called evil beings and actions are in and 
of ignorance. 

There may be race thoughts, or race beliefs, 
that have grown positive through ages of exist- 
ence and universal acceptance; nevertheless, they 
live in and belong to the negative sphere of Mind, 
have no real principles of reason or truth to 
substantiate them, and have no real power; while 
thoughts of Truth are alive with the positive force 
of the Spirit of God, and the mind that expresses 
them is en rapport with the minds of angels and 
archangels and every healing, illuminating potency 
in the universe of Divine Mind. 

Every mind and every condition of ignorance 
can be developed into the more positive condition 
of knowledge and health through the omniscient 
power inherent in the thought, ALL IS GOOD. 

Everything, no matter how evil it appears, is 
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progress to a more intelligent condition under the 
fertilizing recognition that ALL IS GOOD. 

Nothing, nothing can turn against one who lives 
in the positive recognition and avowal of this ever- 
potent truth. This one statement of absolute 
Good, that his reasoning powers can glory and re- 
joice in for weeks and months, will prove itself the 
voice of Omnipotence by making all of his mind 
and world good and prosperous, and it will glorify 
his whole nature with the exhilarating life that 
comes to those whose minds are wholly in tune 
with the infinite Good. 

Much of the pain, disease, and poverty of a 
patient is the outpicturing of negative beliefs. In 
order to make a convincing impression upon the 
mind of the patient, the healer must be conscious 
of the power of thought and be thoroughly imbued 
with the knowledge that ALL IS GOOD. The 
healer's mind must be so enthusiastic in this knowl- 
edge of truth that it will be positive to the patient's 
belief that some evil exists and possesses the power 
to harm. Holding the patient in the power of true 
thought for a space of time, radiating its light 
through his mind and directing its forces into the 
parts of his body in need of education, the healer 
will carry the conviction of the Spirit to the pa- 
tient and restore him to a more positive state of 
health and peace. 

This supreme positiveness is the highest de- 
velopment of the healing thought, enabling the 
goodness of Truth to assume command of the neg- 
ative mind and remodel it after its own pattern of 
perfection. In the treatment the whole mind be- 



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comes so devoted and concentrated to healing 
thought that there are times when it loses itself 
in the thoughtless, wordless consciousness of 
Power, becoming the instrument of the miraculous 
healing influence of the Christ. 

This is the wonder-working law which healers 
have occasionally fulfilled — the magical mercy of 
Jesus Christ. When those desirous of healing 
for self or others have fulfilled this law, either 
consciously or unconsciously, the results have been 
all that could be desired, the healing perfect and 
complete. 

Jesus was dominated by but one purpose, the 
healing and awakening of God's beloved. Every 
cell in his nature thrilled with that one desire, the 
vital impulse of the Heart of Creation. He be- 
came so imbued with the realization of God pres- 
ent in all, that with his glorified vision He saw his 
persecutors as gods, and tried to reveal the in- 
finite possibilities of the God-Presence in them and 
around them, awaiting only their recognition to 
spring forth into newness of life and joy within 
them and abundant fruition of goodness without 
them. The healing Presence became so actual 
to Him through singleness of eye to the power of 
Good, that He fully represented this redeeming 
and saving Power. He was physical and mental 
health, and his touch was the contagion of health. 

We shall grow more perfect in the power to 
heal as we lose our mortal conceptions, as we for- 
get all thoughts of a mortal, material world of 
evil, in the contemplation of the truth that we 
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universe, expressing its vital energy in every atom 
of this splendid cosmos of manifested Intelli- 
gence. 

" Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts. 
The whole earth is full of His Glory." 



THE MYSTERY OF OMNIPOTENCE 

Mount Pelee uttered its devastating word, and 
twenty-eight thousand souls were swept from this 
field of action. After a great cataclysm there 
arises in the minds of many the old idea of God in 
his wrath smiting the children of earth for their 
wickedness. Many are led to question the al- 
mightiness of God, in the orthodox sense of his 
being able to do just as He may choose in causing 
or forestalling the manifestation of an energy like 
that exhibited on the island of Martinique. 

Is there a personal or impersonal God who is 
able to do just as He may please in and with the 
universe? Is there an omnipotent Intelligence 
guiding and controlling the operation of natural 
law? The atheist quickly answers, no. To him 
there is only a universal, blind force that operates 
as immutable and unchangeable law. The ag- 
nostic sees that there is undeviating law operative 
everywhere; more he does not claim to know. 
The orthodox thinker claims that the Lord is om- 
nipotent, but he cannot give a reason why the 
Lord should allow cataclysms to interfere with the 
peace of humanity. 

I promulgate the belief held by a great number 
of the advanced thinkers of the day that there is 
an omnipotent and universal Intelligence prevalent 
in the universe, but that there are different degrees 

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of manifestation of this one almighty Power. 
The physical universe of matter is the negative 
form of this great Power, or Force, the mode of 
expression of which some call Natural Law. The 
vibrations of force exist in various degrees, from 
the gross vibrations of physical substance to the 
finest vibrations of mental energy. As the forms 
of life come into manifestation they organize and 
exhibit this universal Power in varying degrees of 
complexity, from the animalculae to man. As 
forms evolve and become more complex they come 
in touch with finer and finer degrees of force. At 
first they have only the power to organize life; 
later there is born the ability to feel, which de- 
velops, still later in evolution, into the animal's 
faculty of instinct, which is a certain responsive- 
ness to the mental waves of intelligence. This 
faculty, which we call instinct in the animal can 
be developed in man so that he can come in touch 
with the finer and deeper waves of omniscence that 
vibrate through the mighty Mind of God. 

When the great processes of evolution, working 
so ceaselessly and tirelessly in Nature's magic 
wonderhouse, have brought the complex structure 
and brain of man into manifestation, we can say 
that God has made man out of the dust of the 
earth; and because this highly organized being is 
capable of responding to the Divine Spirit that 
inhabits the inmost recesses of existence, we can 
also say that God has breathed into him the breath 
of Life. Therefore incarnate man is the media- 
tor between the highest and lowest states of being, 
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him to receive from and communicate with every 
region in the physical and spiritual universe. 

We are taught that each form is composed of 
atoms that are vibrating to and fro with intense 
rapidity, and that the atoms themselves are but 
forms of vibrating force. The tables, chairs, and 
books in our rooms, and even the walls, are 
masses of vibrations. The atmosphere is also a 
vibrating substance; in fact, all life is vibration 
in different degrees of intensity. The finer vibra- 
tions interpenetrate those more gross. For in- 
stance, those vibrations called the X-ray penetrate 
through flesh and through wood without disturb- 
ing the vibrations of those substances; and there 
are still finer vibrations than the X-ray. You can 
imagine a form composed of the X-ray vibrations 
being present in the spot occupied by a grosser 
form, without one form being sensibly present to 
the other. Thinking along the same line, you can 
see how the mighty vibrations of the God-presence 
can be present in the room and in one's body, and 
all through space, without being directly evident 
to the senses. We can reason from this that the 
Omnipotent Intelligence is omnipresent in the 
realm of positive existence, without being able to 
directly influence the operations of natural law. 
Thus we see the need of a mediator. Man is a 
part of God's omnipotence. We see that creation 
is not complete without man, and that God is de- 
pendent upon man for the fulfillment of his mani- 
festation, as truly as man is dependent upon God 
for the power and wisdom that will enable him to 
gain dominion over the negative and undeveloped 
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The resistant granite, the crystal quartz, the 
beautiful flower, the graceful tree and the strong 
and cunning animal are all parts of the vast intel- 
ligence of God, but they are intelligence in a latent 
state. Only in man is this intelligence come to 
consciousness or developed to a knowledge of its 
power. It is the privilege and duty of man to 
make God manifest for the benefit of all lesser 
degrees of evolving intelligence. And even in 
man there are degrees of the expression of this 
intelligence. Man may be receptive only to the 
viorations of animal life and he may live in the 
sphere of animal sensation; or he may live in and 
express the finer and more interior degrees of his 
complex nature, from the intellectual sphere of 
perception and understanding to the will sphere 
of loving and being in the realization of the om- 
niscient love of the Christ consciousness, which is 
the Presence of the Father within. 

Jesus Christ was developed to the most exalted 
degree of union with the omnipotent Father, and 
according to his power to organize, by faith and 
love, this positive intelligent Power, He was mas- 
ter of all the lesser vibrations of mind and matter 
and was able to inspire the mind of humanity with 
a renewed impetus toward Divinity. 

The pleasure of living increases as the interior 
springs of feeling are opened and allowed to flow 
out through the nature. Many lonely women 
have found a sweet solace in caring for flowers 
and mothering cats and dogs. These objects have 
drawn out the divine love from within the soul, 
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care and affection were both blessed. If two 
boxes of flower seeds are planted at the same time, 
and one is blessed with thoughts of life and love 
day after day, while the other is left to grow un- 
thought of, the seeds that have been brooded over 
by a thoughtful, loving mind will respond to the 
vivifying influence of thought and outstrip in rapid 
growth the seeds that have not had the human 
blessings. The same kind of treatment will bring 
a dog or cat or horse to a wonderful development 
of intelligence; and the time is not far away when 
this simple truth will be understood and practised 
in dealing with the perverted or undeveloped in- 
telligence of the criminal classes. Even little chil- 
dren are doing a great work in the evolution of the 
souls of animals as they give to their pets the finer 
and more highly organized vibrations of the hu- 
man species. 

Thus, through mankind, the higher degrees of 
the Father's love and wisdom are open to the low- 
liest degrees and forms of life, and every human 
being may be a co-worker with the Father in lift- 
ing all beings to a higher degree of intelligence 
and power in the limitless scale of evolving life. 
Every one who radiates the blessing of love to 
all creatures, with the understanding that All is 
Good, is a mediator between the Father and his 
creation, and will realize the great satisfaction 
that comes from expressing the qualities and 
powers of the soul. The birth and expression of 
the Christ love in and from the soul will bring 
to each one the conviction of individual immor- 
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ing hand in hand with the omnipotent Father in 
his great work of glorifying his universe. 

Knowing this great truth of man's intimate re- 
lation to the Father, as an agent in the sublimiza- 
tion and spiritualization of all substance that the 
Father may be all in all, we can look forward with 
prophetic vision to the unfolding future, when all 
error or ignorance will be transformed into divine 
intelligence, and the mind of humanity and of the 
planet will be so filled with the harmonizing light 
and love of the Father's Presence that even the 
processes of nature will become more orderly and 
intelligent — as now they are more peaceful and 
settled than they were in the past — so that all 
disasters from unorganized forces will come to an 
end, and the whole earth will exhibit the fertility, 
and richness in grace and harmony of a heavenly 
kingdom, where the love of the Father is lord and 
master in all hearts and throughout the length and 
breadth of visible nature. 



CULTIVATE YOUR WILL 

The omnipotent Will of God is holding worlds 
and solar systems in obedience to a harmonious 
order. You stand in the highest order of created 
beings, and you have the ability to come in direct 
contact with the divine Will, to the end that it may 
express its purpose of perfection through your 
whole nature. Develop the divine Will within 
you by exercising it. You can cultivate such a 
mighty force of will by the constant assertion, " I 
am, I will," that every temptation will be over- 
come and every bad habit transformed into good 
by the awakening of this mighty attribute of your 
divinity. These affirmations will give you the 
godlike power of dominion*: 

I am a living Soul of God. 

I will realize the majesty and glory of my di- 
vine Soul. 

I will feel constantly that I am an angel of Light 
and Love. 

I will exercise my dominion over every negative 
condition of body and affairs. 

I will conquer all evil. 

I will resist all temptations. 

I will live the pure life of Christ in the flesh. 

I will fill every organ of my nature with healing 
life. 

I will express the perfect life and health that 

exist in my Soul. 

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I will become such a magnet of love that har- 
mony and prosperity will surround me on all sides. 

I praise the Father for this mighty power that 
is now mine. 

I praise Jesus Christ that my Soul's highest as- 
pirations are now quickened and awakened by his 
Holy Spirit. 

I will walk hand in hand with Jesus Christ in 
making his life and power manifest, and help es- 
tablish his Kingdom on earth. Praise His Holy 
Name. 



BUILDING THE TEMPLE OF FAITH 

You see the beauty of the divine Truth, and now 
you desire to build your temple of mind after its 
pattern. You desire to manifest the truth that 
you understand. " Faith is the substance of 
things hoped for." Faith is a mental energy that 
you can cultivate. Every time you think a 
thought of truth you are adding one more word of 
faith to the mental energy that is building up your 
spiritual body. Every time you make a strong 
affirmation of the strength, health, and prosperity 
which are now attributes of your soul, you are 
formulating the quality of mental energy that 
your soul can use to come into strong, perfect man- 
ifestation. 

The faith that you have generated in the past 
has been a negative form of faith. You have not 
known the wonderful power of thought, and you 
have allowed various kinds of false beliefs to oc- 
cupy your mind; consequently your mind-body, the 
spiritual body that is formed of your thoughts, has 
been open to the influences and beliefs that fill 
the mind of the world, and has not realized the 
dominion of the Mind of God. 

Your mind has exercised a certain negative do- 
minion over the flesh, and its limiting beliefs are 
the cause of much bodily discomfort. All the 

thinking that has formed your present mind-body, 

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which now dominates your physical organism, 
must be regenerated and transformed into true in- 
telligence, that the power of God may become 
manifest as your physical healer and savior. This 
change of mind comes gradually by the processes 
of education and growth. There is an increasing 
power of mind, as the Presence of God becomes 
more and more visible to the understanding. 

You are the visible form of an endless stream 
of vitality and energy. The Holy Spirit of love 
broods over you and is willing to give you of its 
almighty strength. God* is your life. God is 
your intelligence. The gift of eternal life is yours 
as fast as you can appropriate it. There is no 
limitation placed over you by the love of God. 
You are as unlimited as your Source, and you can 
think yourself into freer channels of life and ex- 
pression. You will feel the glowing fire of the 
divine Presence as it begins its work of regenerat- 
ing your physical nature, and the thrill of the 
heavenly vitality will convince you that your body 
is a kingdom of heavenly bliss. 

Spend some time daily in thinking and speaking 
truth for yourself, with confidence that you are 
cooperating with the Father in building a divine 
temple for his presence to inhabit. Think thus: 

I am in the midst of the aimighty forces of God 
that are all working for my good. All are work- 
ing for my prosperity. I will with all the power 
of my mind and soul that all my affairs shall 
quickly arrange themselves for the demonstration 
of my prosperity. All that is mine shall come to 



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me. There is no one with any power to withhold 
my own from me. Love and justice reign su- 
preme in all my world. All is Good. God the 
Good protects, sustains and prospers me, now, and 
at all times. I recognize only the good in all be- 
ings. My faith is grounded and unalterably fixed 
in the Good, and thus my faith will conquer every 
belief of evil, and I will by my true faith hold my- 
self in unity with the powerful Mind of God. 

I am living in the midst of an ocean of vitality 
and intelligence. 

" In God I live and move and have my being." 
I am breathing this vitality and strength every mo- 
ment, asleep or awake. My stomach is vitalized 
and able to assimilate sustenance and strength 
from all I eat. I love to eat and absorb strength. 
I am in tune with all nature and with the healing 
power of God, and all things are giving me of 
their life and energy. I see and feel that the 
whole universe is a vast sea of life, energy, and 
beneficent Intelligence, and I am a magnet in the 
midst of it all, appropriating all that I need to 
build a perfect, healthy body and mind. 

• 

I know, O Thou Eternal One, that thy love 
holds me in its almighty embrace. I am a little 
child in thy hands. I trust, implicitly to thy all- 
wise Presence. Fill me with thy Spirit of Truth, 
that I may thoroughly know and feel that All is 
Good; that all fear and care may depart from my 
mind. I will learn of Thee, that I may find thy 
peace. I know that as the Spirit of thy Truth 



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grows strong in my mind, all mortal errors and 
fears will vanish, as the mists dissolve and disap- 
pear before the morning sun. Thou art the sun 
of my soul, and in the brightness of thine omni- 
present Glory my soul now awakens and is filled 
with the joy of immortal Life. 

I praise thy Intelligence, which I see manifest- 
ing everywhere. I praise thy Love, which is pres- 
ent within each soul. I praise thy Life, which is 
the omnipotent sustainer of all creatures. I 
praise the Lord, my Christ, for the grandeur of 
the Sun of Righteousness that now illumines and 
glorifies my life. 

Glory to God in the Highest, 
Peace on earth, goodwill to men. 



TRUST IN GOD 

With the proper understanding of the truth of 
the mighty Lord of lives, I know you can bring 
yourself to so perfect a faith in his Power and 
Presence that you will not be moved by anything 
that transpires around you. Unless you arrive 
at this stage of faith your knowledge is vain and 
valueless as a spiritual support. 

You are disturbed by inharmonious conditions 
in your own life and allow yourself to be affected 
by the troubles of other people. This is because 
of your great sympathy; but the one who is firmly 
poised in the truth of the goodness of the Pres- 
ence of the Father, and who has made real to his 
mind, by constant affirmation, the truth that He 
is the omnipotent one, is undisturbed by the 
many appearances of evil, while doing all pos- 
sible to alleviate the conditions, because he is 
firmly grounded in the faith that the Almighty 
cannot be thwarted, and all must from omnipo- 
tent necessity work for good. When we are so 
strong in this faith, the true faith that unites 
us to the power of Elohim, we then make the 
perfect mental conditions whereby only good can 
operate in and around us; whereas, if we are 
unsettled in mind and do not furnish a still, posi- 
tive point for the radiation of the Power that 
makes for good, all things seem to work to create 
more disturbance. 

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We cannot keep in union with the Christ if we 
have any other gods besides Him, if we allow any 
personality to come between Him and us. While 
working for all good results, we must leave each 
and every soul free to be moved by his Will, and 
not take the responsibility of forcing anything to 
come in the life of another just as we think it 
should, for then we may hinder the very thing 
which the all-wise Spirit would accomplish. 

The more we positively affirm what we know to 
be true, the more positive and powerful our faith 
becomes, so it is our method to make affirmations 
continually toward building up the spiritual mind 
of faith. The power of God is impartial; it will 
operate to do whatever our thought turns it to 
accomplish. So we must speak the words of truth 
with confidence, knowing that they are seeds that 
will bring a perfect fruitage in God's own time. 

Truth is mighty and will prevail — if we give 
it a mental form through which it can act. 



THE WORD OF POWER 

As we comprehend the symphonies of the great 
musicians, we see them to be wonderful creations 
of grace and beauty. We understand that the dis- 
cords are just as necessary as the harmonies to 
make a perfect, artistic whole. We see that dis- 
cords and harmonies must be contrasted in order 
to bring out the relative value of each. And look- 
ing at the symphony in a comprehensive way we 
say that it is all harmony; viewed from the artistic 
standpoint there are no discords; it is a perfect 
evolution of musical thought. But looking at it 
from the standpoint of details, analyzing chord 
after chord, we use the relative statements, and 
say that one set of notes is a discord, while another 
is a harmony. So it is the time element that 
makes manifest the discords and reveals the evo- 
lution of discords into harmonies. There are 
long drawn out discords and the quick modula- 
tions and resolutions of chords, all ending at last 
in the tonic or keynote, which is the victorious 
alpha and omega determining all progression in 
the musical composition. 

The universe is the grand symphony of God's 
Love; our souls are divine notes evolved by the 
Master Musician, and all are fulfilling a wise end 
and use in the progressive harmony of life. As 

we contemplate the vast designs of the orderly 

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cosmos, we are compelled to acknowledge an op- 
erating Wisdom above all mortal comprehension. 
Looking at the universe from a point of view 
above the petty details of mortal existence, we are 
willing to acknowledge that it is an artistic produc- 
tion of a Master Mind; that it is a living sym- 
phony, all grace, all wisdom, all harmony. Com- 
ing down to the details of life in time, where the 
evolution of the tones of the universal symphony 
appear as discords, and, in their unrelated group- 
ings, as continuous sounding dissonances, we are 
apt to lose sight of the majestic march of the 
Whole in its progression in the wisdom and love 
of God. God is the Master Musician, and his 
Soul of Love and Light is the keynote of exist- 
ence, the Alpha and Omega from which all the 
harmonies of existence proceed and into which all 
are again resolved. 

From the standpoint of his Wisdom there is 
no evil or discord; all is good and all is harmo- 
nious to the eternal Mind that rules and sways all 
in endless progressions of wisdom and love. It 
is only because we look at things from a limited 
viewpoint in time, where the future resolutions 
and evolutions of the discords of existence are not 
apparent, that evil appears as an incomprehensible 
mystery. From the view given in this analogy 
we can understand the truth that all life and in- 
telligence and all substance are expressions of God, 
and therefore good, and that evil is but an appear- 
ance to us because we do not comprehend the pur- 
pose of God or the evolution of his purpose in 
humanity. No philosophy has ever given a satis- 



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factory reason for the existence of evil or evolved 
a theory of beneficent Intelligence without making 
God responsible for any evil that might enter into 
his creation. 

This idea of the universal goodness of all that 
is, is the foundation thought for all spiritual pro- 
gression. Spirituality consists in coming into 
sympathetic relationship with the Mind of God 
and thinking and feeling as his Spirit inspires. In 
order to accomplish this our minds must be lifted 
above the limited conceptions which the race has 
evolved, and conceive of the Spirit of God in the 
Goodness of his eternal reality. If we compre- 
hend that the motive from which his wisdom acts 
is universal love, we shall desire to bring our 
whole nature into accord with this supreme Tone 
of life, and we shall see from this exalted stand- 
point that love and goodwill, not selfishness and 
condemnation, are the Christ-like modes of ex- 
pression. 

His Spirit is ever present in the positive states 
of the universal Mind, but until we grow to a posi- 
tive degree of faith or knowledge, our minds are 
related only to the negative states of the universal 
Mind, and cannot feel, or respond to, the move- 
ments of the Spirit. Like the wire in the glass 
bulb which because of its resistance to the electric 
current becomes luminous, we are glorified by our 
ability to stand positive under the vibrations of 
Spirit, and thus make its Light manifest. As our 
mental structure becomes more and more positive 
with divine thoughts and feelings, we advance 
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life, until we gain a power of spiritual positive- 
ness and resistance that enables us to stand upright 
as Sons of the Eternal, and feel the beatings of 
the waves of deific life against every particle of 
our spiritual nature. Verily, we must be al- 
mightily positive in love and truth if we would 
be able to polarize and organize into our own be- 
ings the forces of Omnipotence. 

It is a common idea that man is a medium or 
receptacle for God, an instrument through which 
God will flow, as water flows through a tube. I 
have watched those who have held this idea, but 
have failed to see them attain to any exalted con- 
sciousness of God. It has been my experience 
that God seeks to glorify minds that can stand 
without flinching in the white glory of the Name- 
less Presence, and trace their pedigree to God; 
minds that can unite with Him in expressing the 
Power that has dominion over the negative mental 
states and conditions which have not yet arrived 
at the consciousness of the Divinity resident within 
the positive center of existence. This dominion 
is but the power of love that irresistibly leads and 
attracts undeveloped minds, even against their 
knowledge and will, into the way of progressive 
evolution toward the sublime heights of Divinity. 

It was the positive knowledge which Jesus had 
of his oneness with the Father that enabled Him 
to bear the glory of the Father in his nature. For 
years He had cultivated a body of thought, a 
character built out of positive affirmations of true 
thought, until He had a pure, resistant spiritual 
nature which had become an organization of the 



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mighty thought of God, a radiating Center of di- 
vine love and wisdom. He thought the truth and 
spoke what He saw to be true of his soul, until 
the aggregation of a vast number of positive 
thought-forces combined to form his mind into 
one glorious word of power. He lived so con- 
tinually in the thought and faith of the Logos 
that He became the Word and Spirit of the Al- 
mighty incarnate. 

He was so positively alive with the life and 
thought of God that it was enough for Him to 
project an emanation of his own faith into the na- 
ture of one who needed and was ready for this 
healing influx, to set that whole nature to vibrat- 
ing with divine harmony and health. The Spirit 
of God inspired the whole aggregation of his 
thoughts, and his glorified mind-body filled his 
flesh with the vitality of eternity, so that when He 
projected an emanation from his soul sphere, his 
mental sphere, and his magnetic sphere into a pa- 
tient, all conditions were made for the instantane- 
ous demonstration of health in the patient's whole 
being. Thus the health and harmony of Je- 
hovah God came into instantaneous manifestation 
through his spiritualized instrument. And in the 
degree that we allow the Spirit of truth and love 
to express through our natures, we also shall, like 
Jesus, be able to make God's mercy manifest. 

We are just beginning to learn that our natures 
are batteries for the generation of mental force. 
We are continually 'sending out currents of 
thought force from our mental batteries. And it 
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with an energy and intelligence capable of operat- 
ing at a distance from the brain from which they 
are sent. And more wonderful still, we are being 
influenced for good or ill by the thoughts of others 
which we allow to enter our mental sphere. So 
we are either positive generators of thoughts 
which affect others, or we are ourselves being af- 
fected by the thoughts of others. In fact, we are 
always being impressed by minds more positive 
than ours, and in turn impressing minds less posi- 
tive. Knowing this, it behooves us, for our own 
protection, to become more positive than the 
minds with whom we associate; and that we may 
realize the greatest good for ourselves, and give 
the minds who come under our influence an im- 
pulse toward purer and higher thinking, we should 
cultivate an expression of thought which will re- 
late us to the mighty Mind of eternal Goodness 
and Wisdom. 

We are learning of the power of the word and 
its magical influence over minds, but many are 
gaining a realization that when the power of the 
word is used for selfish ends it brings more sorrow 
than joy; that with the operation of occult forces 
there comes a responsibility which is apt to bring 
more bondage than freedom. Those who try to 
hold others in selfish bondage do not rise out of 
the sphere of selfish forces themselves, and so with 
the intensification of their selfish-mindedness they 
are limited as never before. Only those who are 
willing to arise and go to the Father, to abide in 
his Love and Wisdom, find the way that leads to 
the demonstration, in their individual lives, of the 
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The mysterious power of the Spirit of God is 
not a physical vibration, nor is it a mental vibra- 
tion of thought; it is a power above and beyond 
human thought. Some have thought that this 
Breath of the Almighty could be indrawn by cer- 
tain breathing exercises. These exercises will re- 
fine the physical nature and make it sensitive to 
certain occult vibrations, but these vibrations are 
of a sphere subordinate to the almighty Spirit. 
The Spirit is a breath in a correspondent sense 
only. It is inbreathed into the understanding of 
the spiritual mind as air is inspired by the lungs, 
but no process of physical respiration will open the 
mind to the Breath of divine Wisdom. This can 
come only by educating the mind in the knowledge 
of eternal Truth. Every wise teacher has em- 
phasized the fact that freedom, health, and salva- 
tion are to be found in the mighty principle called 
Truth. Therefore, Jesus taught truth instead of 
breathing exercises as a means of health and soul 
poise. 

It is the Spirit above man's mortal thought 
which endows man with divine power. Let us 
take for illustration two men of equal mental 
powers. Each understands how to generate men- 
tal force from his organism. The first has great 
faith in his own mental powers, and according to 
his faith he generates forces from his mental bat- 
tery which proceed to accomplish that whereunto 
they are sent. The second has faith in his own 
mental powers plus faith in the goodness and 
power of God, and he generates thoughts of truth 
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inspired by the greater power of the Spirit of 
Truth. Thus the man whose mind is illuminated 
with Truth will have a power in his thoughts and 
words which will carry a conviction of the Spirit 
equal to his purity, sincerity, and his realization 
of Truth. 

When the mind perceives the eternal verities 
and enunciates them into positive thoughts, these 
thoughts are alive with the Spirit that is eternal 
Life itself. More important then than physical 
breathing exercises or mental concentration, is the 
awakening of the soul to the knowledge and love 
of the living God, that it may inbreathe the Breath 
of Eternity and gain the conscious power which 
will illuminate the mind and revitalize the body 
with a spontaneous joy that will be irresistibly po- 
tent in transforming the nature and subordinating 
all processes into harmony with itself. 

If a student sits and practices breathing exer- 
cises or mental concentration in the ordinary nega- 
tive state of mind, thought vibrations will be in- 
drawn from the negative mortal sphere of the 
universal mind, but if the student's mind is first 
made positive and radiant with the Spirit of Truth 
by affirmation of living, eternal truth, there will 
come, by the law of like attracting like, an influx 
of thought which will have an uplifting and exalt- 
ing power. 

To sit in a negative state of thought and pas- 
sively draw upon the invisible for occult power, 
will make one a medium for a quality of mental 
influx like that with which his mind is in tune at 
the moment. Thus is mediumship developed, and 



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the mental doors are opened to just the quality of 
mind which we are striving to outgrow and over- 
come. So the mind must first be exalted by as- 
piration and affirmation to the love and contem- 
plation of divine truths, and then when the whole 
being becomes spiritually positive in the joy of 
expressing living thoughts of wisdom, a state of 
passive receptivity will follow which will bring 
to the soul the emanations of heavenly inspiration. 
There is latent, now, in each individual soul a 
power of divinity capable of transforming the 
whole body into health and perfection. This 
power, which is the Spirit of the Almighty, may be 
expressed through positive affirmations of truth 
— thoughts of recognition which embody in men- 
tal form its divine potency. Through faith this 
Spirit manifests its power; and faith may be cul- 
tivated and developed by affirmations of truth re- 
lating to the goodness and wisdom and perfection 
of this Power. We may affirm the presence of 
almighty health and strength until we feel the 
glowing power infilling our thoughts and tingling 
with joyous life through every cell of the body. 
It is by affirmation of the truth that we build the 
spiritual temple of faith through which God comes 
into manifest expression in our flesh. And as we 
develop this potency of the spiritual word, and 
tune our natures to the keynote of the divine life 
of love and service, we shall gain the consciousness 
of the actual presence of the Father, and become 
so alive with his grace and harmony that God will 
live in every part of us, and we shall begin to real- 
ize in some degree the miraculous power that 
Christ attained as the Word of Power. 



MY SOUL IS ALIVE WITH THE HEAL- 
ING POWER OF JESUS JEHOVAH 

Assume a restful attitude and let the above 
thought occupy your mind. Picture in your 
imagination the living, healing Presence of our 
beloved Master. Call to mind the marvelous 
power of healing He exercised while on earth. 
Think of Him as walking among men, radiant 
with healing love to all. Then remember that 
that same individualized Presence of the Father 
can be the inspiration of your mind and the health 
of your flesh to-day as it was to those of yore, if 
you will but allow Him to occupy your thought 
and affection. 

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; 
If any man hear my voice, and open the door, 
I will come in to him and sup with him, 
And he with me." — Rev. 3 :20. 

His glorified angelic Presence is waiting to glorify 

your temple with eternal Life and Love. 

As you hold this thought in mind, know that 

your soul and body are being illuminated and 

spiritualized and harmonized by the living glory 

of the Christ. Cultivate by love and devotion 

this heavenly Presence of your God. Your soul 

will awaken under the influx of his Holy Spirit, 

and new and holy aspirations will be born. You 

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will feel your soul and mind and body being trans- 
formed into the harmony and perfection that are 
your real, eternal character. 

After you have continued this practice for a 
time you will begin to realize as never before that 
your soul is an actual, intelligent power, superior 
to your conscious mind, created in the image and 
character of the Almighty God. As your aspira- 
tion and love draw around you the brooding Pres- 
ence of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, your soul 
will gradually awaken to the consciousness of eter- 
nal life that characterized it in its angelic state 
previous to birth, and you will praise and glorify 
the Christ as the regenerator and redeemer of 
your soul. Then you will love to give time to 
silence and meditation, while your soul may be 
fed by its Beloved on the Bread of Life. And 
from this awakening of the soul there will come to 
you a new and more potent vitality that will heal 
and harmonize all your nature. Your soul will 
begin to realize its god-like dominion over sin, 
sickness, and death. It will become a potent mag- 
net of love to draw to itself all that is required of 
wisdom and wealth to promote its spiritual wel- 
fare; and daily, as you commune with and praise 
Him, will Jesus Jehovah develop your soul — the 
Christ within — until your character conforms to 
the grace and beauty of the celestial image of the 
Eternal God. 



DENY THE CAUSE OF DISEASE 

In treating diseases mentally, deny out of the 
mind the cause of the appearance. There is no 
cause for disease in your soul nature, which is your 
true nature. In thinking the truth of the soul to 
overcome error thoughts of the mind, always deny 
every cause that is not real in your soul nature. 
Your soul is Truth. The life and perfection of 
the soul are positive Power. Think the truth of 
your soul, speak the truth of your soul, and trust 
it to overcome all negative appearances in the 
flesh. While pain and disease may appear very 
real to the senses, they are not real conditions to 
the soul nature. What the soul knows and feels 
as true is the real standard of eternal Truth. The 
soul recognizes unlimited life and perfection as 
the only permanent truth, no matter what may ap- 
pear real in the body. And if the conscious mind 
will agree with the soul and deny all causes of sick- 
ness and pain as unreal, the soul's power and per- 
fection will become manifest. A,s: 

There is no cause in my soul for this pain. 

There cannot be any cause for pain in this tem- 
ple of truth. 

My soul is the life and peace of my flesh. 



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DENY THE IMPERFECT: AFFIRM THE 

PERFECT 

The human battery of mental energy may gen- 
erate thought which is constructive or destructive. 
As the electric spark is discharged from the elec- 
tric apparatus, so, in like manner, sparks of 
thought are discharged from the mental appara- 
tus. Although the charges of mental force are 
invisible to mortal sight, they are, nevertheless, 
much more potent in many ways than the crude 
spark of electric energy. Sparks of thought force 
are superior to electric sparks because they are in- 
telligent; and the power in each spark will work in- 
telligently to accomplish whatever it is directed 
to do, and instead of becoming exhausted it be- 
comes stronger by drawing like mental elements 
to itself. We have a very faint realization as yet 
of the power of thought. When the world wakes 
us to the spiritual value of thought, to the creative 
value of thought, the members of the human fam- 
ily will become as gods in their dominion over the 
flesh and over all negative environments. 

By affirmation of truth, thoughts of construc- 
tive power are generated. By denial of the be- 
liefs of the past which we see to be false, we gen- 
erate a dissolving force which dissolves from the 
subconscious and conscious degrees of mind all 
dark and limiting thought forces that tend to dis- 
ease and discord in the human economy. 

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The subconscious mind is the storehouse of all 
the thoughts and feelings of this present life, run- 
ning back to the thoughts and feelings of the par- 
ents which formed the basis of the subconscious 
mind. 

The subconscious mind of each personality, 
then, is a mental garden, in which is planted all 
the false and undeveloped thoughts and feelings 
of the whole race, or at least of that part of the 
race from which the personality descended most 
directly. And as the subconscious mind is the 
spiritual form or matrix which molds its physical 
counterpart, forming and operating every organ 
in the body, directing the new food elements that 
are partaken of daily to their proper places in 
the formation of the body, it is necessary to go 
back into this subconscious character form to find 
the potent cause for the discord and inharmony 
in the physical body. If the seeds of lust, limita- 
tion, fear, ignorance, revenge, cruelty, disease, or 
death have been sown by ancestors, or by con- 
scious thought, in the garden of the subconscious 
mind, then all these seeds will have to be dissolved 
in order that the subconscious mind may reflect the 
perfect order and harmony of the heavenly Mind 
of God and make God's perfect thought into a 
perfect temple of flesh. Not until the subcon- 
scious mind is cleansed and purified by the dissolv- 
ing power of thought can the soul power within, 
the true individual from God, gain its perfect 
mastery over its instrument of flesh. 

All thoughts, like thoughts of lust, that have 
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because they limit the soul in its perfect expres- 
sion and fill the blood with poison. Evil 
thoughts, like lust, anger, jealousy, etc., have a 
creative force. They transform the food ele- 
ments into poisonous compounds. This is now 
demonstrated conclusively by scientific experiment. 
But, thanks to the knowledge of the action of 
mind, we know that we no longer need to suffer 
for the sinful thoughts of our parents, nor do we 
need to suffer for our own sins of the past. We 
can use the process of mental denial to dissolve 
all the seeds of past thoughts from the conscious 
and subconscious degrees of the mind. A spark 
of electric energy may be sent through the depila- 
tory needle to the root of a hair to destroy the 
root; so by denial may sparks of thought be sent 
into the mysterious recesses of the subconscious 
mind to destroy all false beliefs of the past. 

The same mental force may be used to dissolve 
all false growths, all swellings, all poisonous ele- 
ments, and every diseased condition from the 
physical form. Every one of these things has a 
mental counterpart, and unless the mental growth 
is first dissolved the material means used to dis- 
solve the physical growth will not always be suc- 
cessful, because, given the proper conditions, the 
mental form will again reproduce itself in the 
flesh. So the physician of the future will perform 
surgical operations mentally for false growths to 
get permanent results. 

The best results are attained by the use of de- 
nial, followed by affirmation. It will be found 
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mental and physical forces of the body. Denial 
of diseased conditions will disturb the reign of 
those conditions, and denial of old mental beliefs 
will unsettle the mind for a time, causing the dark- 
ness of past thoughts to rise up and shroud the 
mind in gloom. But there is no real reason for 
fear, if the denials are not persisted in for too long 
a time. Strong denials should be followed by 
peaceful, harmonizing affirmations, in order to 
allay any mental or physical disturbance caused 
thereby. 

The following examples of the application of 
mental denial make clear the process. The stu- 
dent can see from these how to exercise the mind 
in denying all conditions of mind and body which 
do not represent the ideal. 

DENIAL OF FEAR 

I take my stand on my eternal soul, and by the 
dissolving power of my mind I dissolve away all 
the limiting thoughts of the past. 

I am a soul in unity with the omniscient Spirit 
of God. I dissolve all thoughts of ignorance 
from my mental atmosphere. I am wise with the 
Wisdom of my soul. I am the Light that clears 
away all the clouds of mortal ignorance. I am 
the Light of Heaven. 

All fearful memories of the past are dissolved. 
I will persist in casting out all fearful thoughts 
from my mind until only the Light of divine Love 
remains. 

My soul is in union with the perfect Love of 
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There is absolutely nothing to fear. All race 
thoughts of fear are dissolved from my mind. All 
hereditary thoughts of fear are dissolved from my 
subconscious mind. I will no longer be bound by 
haunting thoughts of fear. I command my sub- 
conscious mind to cast out all haunting thoughts of 
fear. 

My soul stands in the joyful light of Love and 
cannot feel fear in any form. My soul is clad in 
a mantle of Light and cannot be troubled by mem- 
ories of the past. I am the fearless Child of Om- 
nipotence. 

I know the truth that All is Good. I know I 
cannot lose anything. I know that no force in 
heaven or on earth can take my conscious individ- 
uality from me. I cannot be robbed of any good 
thing. So I have nothing to fear. The fearless 
Spirit of Jesus Jehovah is radiating from within 
my soul. Praise His Holy Name. 

DENY MORTAL HEREDITY 

As a soul born in the image and likeness of the 
Father-Mother God, I deny the power and influ- 
ence of mortal heredity. I deny all limitations 
of a mortal heritage. I deny the negative truth 
of my mortal heredity in favor of the positive 
truth of my immortal heritage as a soul of God. 
I will recognize the power of life, health and per- 
fection within my soul, and by my recognition of 
my soul power I will overcome all negative laws of 
mortal belief. 

I cannot be affected by unhealthy conditions of 
my mortal parents. I refuse to allow any imper- 



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feet conditions to take root in my nature. By the 
power of my divine soul I dissolve from my na- 
ture all tendency toward imperfect conditions. 

I will no longer look back to mortal parents as 
my ancestors. I will trace my birth direct to God, 
who is the real parent of my real being. I will 
not reproduce any of the mental or physical at- 
tributes of mortal parents. I draw all my life, 
all my thought, and all my power to express life 
and health direct from God. I deny from my 
mind any belief that I can be subject to the dis- 
eases of my ancestors. 

By the power of my will I dissolve all possi- 
bility of disease from my organism. By the in- 
tensity of my thought I dissolve every morbid con- 
dition from my flesh. By the power of the Flame 
of God within my soul I cleanse and purify my 
mind and body of all poisonous elements. 

I will keep my mind and body so pure and my 
thought so true to the power of the Divine, that 
only perfect life and health can manifest through 
me. I am an endless stream of life direct from 
God, and by recognition of my life in God I will 
keep the stream of my life pure and perfect for- 
ever. 

DENY MENTAL WEAKNESS 

God is my life. God is my strength. God is 
my mental power. I cannot lose my mind. I 
cannot get weak in mental power. God's Mind 
is all about me, and from his Mind I now draw 
my mental energy and strength. I am surrounded 
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I will not be troubled about material affairs or 
about anything. I will trust all my affairs to the 
Mighty God. I will have faith that all things 
will work out for the good of all. I trust to the 
Love and Wisdom of God to bring all to pass. 

I will sleep in the peace of God every night. 
I will build up in mental strength every night. I 
will develop my will and my mental power by con- 
tinual use. I will exercise my will to overcome. 
I am greater than all negative conditions that have 
held me down, and I now exercise my will to con- 
quer for the glory of God. 



INSOMNIA 

Retiring at irregular hours often induces in- 
somnia because sleep is a habit. The habit of 
sleep can be cultivated because the attitude of ly- 
ing down, darkness, and quiet are all associated 
in the subconscious mind with the state of sleep. 
Thought and feeling retire into the subconscious 
state during sleep, so the subconsciousness is that 
part of the mind that functions during sleep and it 
possesses the power to draw thought and feeling 
back into its depths and thus induce sleep. The 
subconscious mind may be led to produce the state 
of restful sleep by mental suggestions and it will 
seek to carry out the most dominant suggestion it 
has received. 

When wakefulness has become a habit of mind, 
much patient effort may be required in some cases 
to entirely overcome this habit, but rest assured, 
if the causes of nerve irritability are removed and 
the proper suggestions are given to the subcon- 
scious mind, refreshing sleep will become a per- 
manent habit. ' 

One should form the habit of casting aside all 
worries and cares, and even the thoughts of daily 
affairs, before getting into bed. The reclining po- 
sition should be associated with the idea of sleep 
and rest of mind and body, and under no circum- 
stances allow the mind to go back over the affairs 

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of the day after going to bed, because the activity 
of the mind thus induced will settle down into the 
subconscious state and a tiresome dream activity 
will continue after the conscious mind has become 
heavy with slumber; thus insomnia may be devel- 
oped. 

Many have found devotional study a potent 
means of turning the thoughts away from the vexa- 
tions and cares of the day. By study of exalted 
thought a more spiritual side of the mind becomes 
active, the blood retires from those parts of the 
brain that have been active all day, and after- 
wards, with the reclining position, comes restful 
slumber. 

If, after lying down, the mind reverts to the 
thoughts of the day, resist them and then let the 
mind drift passively in the current of thought set 
flowing by your spiritual- studies. 

After lying down, do not make any positive er- 
fort like holding affirmations that would tend to 
keep the mind alert and active, but simply let your 
thoughts and feelings drift away from the material 
life and affairs toward the state of immortal exist- 
ence where the Christ is the Divine Magnet that 
attracts your soul towards the deeps of Bliss. 

When wakefulness has become such a habit that 
one expects nothing else, it is well to read and re- 
peat the following thoughts before retiring in or- 
der to eradicate the idea of wakefulness from the 
mind: 

When I retire I shall go to sleep immediately, 
and no habit of wakefulness shall keep me from 
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When I lie down the blood shall flow away from 
my brain to the extremities of the body, and my 
brain shall rest. 

Sweet sleep shall steal over my senses, bringing 
peace and rest to body and brain. 

Wakefulness is not a normal condition at night. 
I can overcome it, because all the needs of my na- 
ture tend to inaction after action, to sleep after 
wakefulness. 

I will not become discouraged even after ap- 
parent failures, because I know that all my nature 
is cooperating with my efforts. 

My mind will sooner or later adjust itself to ful- 
fill my desire and need for sleep, because it is 
obedient to my will and desire. 

If I wake during the night, I shall expect to go 
to sleep again immediately. 

" And now I lay me down to blissful, dreamless sleep, 
I pray that I may sink myself into Thy Will. 
And through Thy Will awaken to another day, 
To follow Thee, my Master, closely all the way." 



EXERCISE YOUR IMAGINATION 

The audible suggestions of Psychologists have 
broken the nervous habit of wakefulness and 
proved a boon to thousands troubled with insom- 
nia. Many have practiced auto-suggestion with 
the same good results. That is, after lying down 
they have held in mind thoughts like the follow- 
ing: 

My body is now entirely relaxed and I am go- 
ing to sleep. 

I am getting quiet. 

My mind is getting passive and drowsy. 

I will soon be fast asleep and sleep restfully un- 
til morning. 

But occasionally the very effort to hold such 
thoughts defeats the purpose and keeps one 
awake. One woman, after reading of the good 
results of suggestions given at the Emmanuel 
Clinic, tried to " auto-suggest " herself asleep. 
She relaxed hopefully, and repeated her formula 
over and over, but it didn't work. She tried it 
for several nights, growing more restless and im- 
patient, and more skeptical of her own powers, 
each night. It seemed to her that she was two 
persons, one lying sensibly in bed, trying to realize 
that she could and would sleep, and one perched 
on the foot-board looking on and sneeringly re- 
peating, " You can't do it, you can't do it." 

One day she saw in a magazine a picture of a 

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patient being treated in the study of one of the 
Emmanuel workers. An elderly man was sitting 
back most restfully in a morris chair, and behind 
the chair, bending slightly over the patient in an 
attitude suggesting power, assurance, and author- 
ity stood the minister who was treating him. 

When she thought of the picture after retiring, 
she felt very sure that if she were in that study 
and if that minister were bending over her in 
that attitude of calm assurance and strength, and 
would tell her to go to sleep, she would obey. 
Then she decided to " play " that she was being 
treated. She imagined herself in that pictured 
room, relaxed in that comfortable chair. She 
imagined further that a quiet voice, with great re- 
serve power, was saying words similar to these 
which follow, and in ten minutes she was sound 
asleep and slept all night. 

There is no reason why you should not go to 
sleep. 

You can sleep as well as anybody else. 

You are growing very quiet already. 

You are growing sleepy. 

You are going fast asleep. 

You are sleeping ■ — sleeping. Sleep ! 

She reasoned then, that if with that imagining 
she had actually put herself to sleep, she had the 
power to do it without such imagining. She tried 
it and failed. She needed some such aid as her 
imaginary minister afforded her, to enable her to 
let go of her self-consciousness, although after 
awhile she gained the ability to put herself to 
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put herself to sleep by direct suggestions, she 
doubted her words and failed, but she had faith in 
her imaginary minister and the activity of the 
imagination occupied her mind in the creative 
work of forming the minister, the place, and the 
state: of relaxation, which drew the consciousness 
into a subconscious state and allowed the much 
used outer mind to subside. 

There are various ways that this same result 
may be accomplished by use of the imagination. 
One is given in the article " Lost in Thought," on 
page 128 of" Mystic Words." Another method 
is to imagine oneself back in the pleasant scenes 
of childhood. With a little practice, the pictures 
hidden in memory can be entered into and will be- 
come so absorbing that present things will be for- 
gotten; one will wander through bright childhood 
scenes all through the night, and wake refreshed 
from partaking of the joy of happy recollections. 

Those with a large faculty of devotion or 
veneration have found a moral and spiritual value 
added to the sleep-inducing process by imagining, 
instead of the minister giving the suggestions, that 
the radiant form of the real but unseen Christ 
stood beside them and led their consciousness into 
the way of Peace by such words as follow. 

My peace I give unto thee. Let not your heart 
be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

My Presence shall go with thee and I will give 
thee rest. 

Thou shalt take thy rest in safety. 

Rest in the Lord. 

In this place will I give peace. 

Sleep now and take thy rest, abide in me. 



NERVOUS DEBILITY 

Nervous debility is often caused by accumula- 
tions of dark mental forces in the aura or men- 
tal atmosphere of the person, which produce a 
despondent feeling and also weaken the nervous 
system, because they absorb the vital essence. 
They must be dissolved by persistent use of 
thoughts like these which follow : 

Omnipotence is dissolving all false mental forces 
from my presence. 

All disturbing memories are dissolved. 

All disturbing connections with mortal personal- 
ities are dissolved. 

The Spirit is dissolving all mentalities from my 
atmosphere. 

All accumulations of dark and depressing 
thoughts are dissipated. 

All mortal thoughts are washed away. 

My home and my temple are now purified by 
the white light of the Divine Presence. 

I will not have my home an abiding-place for 
fear or darkness of any kind. 

Infinite peace and power are now working to 
make all conditions for my perfect healing. The 
mighty Angels of God are my protection, and un- 
der the shadow of his Wings I abide. 

GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST ! 



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TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION 

By the power of my mental word I dissolve all 
disturbing elements from my atmosphere. 

All the mortal thoughts of the day are dis- 
solved. All the mental discords of the day are 
dissolved. My aura is cleansed of all dark and 
limiting thoughts. All thoughts and memories of 
the day's affairs are dissolved from my mind. 
The weight of mortal responsibility is thrown off 
my mind. My mind is freed from all dark and 
depressing elements of thought. 

My mind rises into the positive state of joyous 
freedom and brightness. My mind is filled with 
the peace and harmony of the Eternal Mind. 
My mind rises above the negative thought cur-> 
rents into the peaceful glory of the Mind that is 
always harmonious. 

Above the discordant vibrations of the mind of 
the world there is the Mind of God, radiant with 
the joy-giving effulgence of the infinite Spirit. 
My mind and soul are lifted up to the contempla- 
tion of the realms on high where the angels of 
God dwell in the serene enjoyment of the grace 
and glory of the living God. Above the tribula- 
tions of the world-mind dwells the glorified soul 
of Jesus Jehovah, radiant with the Peace of eter- 
nity. 

" Be of good cheer, I have overcome the 

world." 

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I praise Thee, O visible Form of God, for the 
spiritual grace and strength that now enliven and 
renew my soul. 

Let your imagination contemplate his glorified 
soul presence ; your mind will be lifted above all 
mortal cares and worries, and He will give you 
of his peace and power. Your soul will partake 
of his joyous life and strength, and rise into the 
realization of its inmost power as an image of 
Divinity. 



CATARRH 

Catarrh is often a hereditary result of the fev- 
erish passions and lusts of the race. In common 
with many other diseases, catarrh may have a sec- 
ondary or operating cause, such as lack of nerve 
power, which also must be overcome. The hered- 
itary causes of diseases exist in the subconscious 
mind, where they are not perceived by the con- 
scious or intellectual mind, and from where they 
affect the constructive processes of life. It is the 
duty of each one to deny out of the subconscious 
mind the causes of disease and all evil tendencies 
received from mortal heredity, and to assert the 
power of the divine nature until it becomes mas- 
terful in controlling the mind and body. Almost 
every one, through mortal heredity, has received 
of the passionate nature of mortals. But from 
God, by divine heredity, each one has received an 
interior nature of purity and peace. 

SELF-TREATMENT 

I am a pure soul of God. There is no cause 

in me for catarrh. The lusts and passions of 

mortal heredity cannot poison my blood or taint 

my flesh with impurity or disease. There is no 

cause for catarrh in these mucous membranes. I 

dominate this whole body with the pure thoughts 

and feelings of my soul nature. My mind and 

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body are cleansed of all impure thoughts and feel- 
ings. The Holy Spirit is powerful to cleanse me 
of all evil and make me whole. 

Also hold thoughts of Life for general invigo- 
ration. 






MY VITAL ORGANS ARE GENERATING 

HEALING, HARMONIZING 

VITALITY 

To overcome weakness or imperfect activity in 
the vital organs this thought should be memorized 
and allowed to remain in the mind as much as pos- 
sible. It should be repeated just before falling 
asleep and the first thing in the morning. Also 
deny all mortal condemnation from the sexual na- 
ture, and affirm the truth that it is pure and holy 
in its office and function. 






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FOR PAINFUL SWELLINGS 

Use these thoughts toward painful swellings : 

You have no pride; you are going down into 
the infinite depths of meekness and peace. You 
are so meek that you cannot organize a painful 
swelling. You are so peaceful that you cannot 
polarize poison. You have no ambition to be 
anything or do anything. You are peace. You 
cannot resist the healing peace that lives in all 
your substance. The cleansing waters of truth 
purify you of all poisonous elements. All is peace 
and harmony. The power of Omnipotence is 
your peace and satisfaction. 



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CONSTIPATION 

Place both hands on the abdomen so as to in- 
crease the magnetic force in the abdomen while 
using these affirmations. This treatment should 
be used three times a day, if possible. 

I will that the intelligent force in each one of 
these organs shall be active in keeping my bow- 
els open and free from any torpid or diseased 
condition. 

My stomach is peaceful digestive power. 

My liver is active intelligence. 

My spleen is spiritual life. 

My kidneys are purifying power. 

My generative organs are creative vitality. 

My bowels are energized mind. 

All these organs work together to produce 
health and harmony in my body. 

I AM SPIRIT IN ACTION. 

All the destructive states of mind which go with 
care and worry, tense the nerves and increase the 
tendency to constipation. A happy, care- free state 
of mind which places all trust in the Wisdom of 
God, relaxes the mind and nerves and removes one 
great cause for constipation. 



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APPENDICITIS 

Thought force infused, into the flesh makes it 
positively healthy and resistant to disease. There 
is absolutely no need for any one to have appen- 
dicitis if he will keep his liver active and his bow- 
els open and free. 

Since Sir Wm. Mac Ewen, M.D., proved that 
the appendix secretes a very important digestive 
and lubricating fluid, physicians have not been so 
ready to remove the appendix when it is inflamed. 
When one feels the first symptoms of appendicitis 
he is apt to become hypnotized by that terrible 
fear which is everywhere prevalent in regard to 
this disease, and this fear-thought alone is capable 
of paralyzing all the healing activity of the 
bowels. 

The bowels should first be purged. If your 
thought has not gained dominion in this respect, 
do not hesitate to aid nature with any means 
knowledge has placed at your disposal. All is 
mind, and an emergency may require that your 
negative body-mind receive a stimulus from some 
of the more tangible expressions of the universal 
Mind. Use your thought with all its intensity to- 
ward infusing the spot affected with intelligent, 
active energy. Do not let fear enter your mind. 

Have faith in the healing power of your own 
life, and know that your positive faith is intensi- 

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fying the healing intelligence in your body and 
making you a magnet for all the healing life per- 
vading the universal Mind of God. Know that 
the Spirit of the almighty Mind is flowing into 
your positive thoughts of faith and making them 
alive with healing energy. Repeat over and over 
to the latent intelligence in the bowels: " You are 
the Spirit of almighty Life in action. You are 
active, active life. The Mind of God is power- 
ful to restore harmony to all these parts. " 

As an aid to centering the thoughts, place the 
hands on the part you are treating, or better still, 
rub the hands in opposite directions across the 
front and back of the body. This will electrify 
all the flesh with a more positive energy. 

I was, some years ago, saved a trip to the hos- 
pital by the persistent practice of the above 
method. It was a well-defined case of appendi- 
citis, and it did seem at times that I had met my 
Waterloo. It took me several days and nights, 
but I conquered, and live to teach the children 
of the Father that within their natures slumbers 
a soul power from God, capable, when awakened 
and expressed through thought, of recreating and 
restoring perfect action in every part of the body. 

HEAVENLY FATHER: 

My soul draws upon Thee for love. Let me 
feel so much of thy Spirit of love that all unlovely 
feelings will be dissolved from my nature. 
Cleanse me of all feelings of ill-will, from all con- 
demnation, from all resentment, and from all 
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the free operation of thy life within my nature. 
As I forgive and bless all my enemies, thy Spirit 
forgives and blesses me, and as I express thy 
Spirit of love, the power of thy Spirit gains full 
control of my body and operates freely in every 
part, bringing every organ into harmony and 
health. I am not withholding love from any 
creature. My " bowels of compassion " are not 
bound. I am not repressing the secretions in 
my bowels by any mental states of fear or con- 
demnation. My mind is filled with thy free, gen- 
erous Spirit and this Spirit reflects in the free ac- 
tion of my bowels. 

Thy love, the power that moves in all lives, is 
the freeing power within my liver and bowels, 
freeing my mind and body from every limiting 
condition. I bless everybody with love and good- 
will. I bless my bowels and all the organs in my 
body with thy vital Spirit of love. I am thy Love 
in action. I do all for the glory of Thy Love. 
Amen. Col. 3:12-13. 



HEALING TREATMENT FOR THE 

EYES 

I know the seeing power resident within my eyes 
can overcome every limitation of my flesh. 

I have faith in the perfect intelligence which 
sees through my eyes. 

My vision is corrected by the living presence 
of Jesus Christ. 

The presence of Jesus Jehovah within my soul 
is my purity and perfection. My vision is not 
limited by any lustful thoughts and feelings. I 
am cleansed and purified of all hereditary and race 
lusts by the Holy Spirit. 

Every atom of my eyes' and optic nerves is in- 
telligent and obedient to the law of perfect for- 
mation, manifesting the beauty and grace of di- 
vine perfection. 

I will that my eyes shall manifest the perfect 
seeing power of the Spirit. 

I am the clear, unlimited sight of God. I will 
manifest my perfect sight. 

I know that the almighty power of perfection is 
present within my soul, and my soul infuses every 
atom of my body. I will make every atom so 
positive with my words of faith that only perfec- 
tion can come into expression. 

I, as a soul of God, have unlimited seeing abil- 

ity. 

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I have faith that my awakening soul will re- 
organize the structure of my eyes. My soul has 
the intelligent ability which enables it to refocus 
the lenses in my eyes so that I see all objects dis- 
tinctly and clearly. My soul is now readjusting 
the focus of my eyes. 

I patiently and trustingly wait upon the Spirit 
within my soul, and give it the strength of my 
faith while it is readjusting the lenses and creat- 
ing perfect vision. 

FATHER ! I thank Thee that my prayer of 
faith is heard, that my thoughts of perfect faith 
are sown in the substance of my eyes, and shall 
bear fruit in perfect sight, to the glory of thy in- 
dwelling Spirit. 

The experience of many who have demon- 
strated over near and far sightedness and other 
defects of the eyes, has proved conclusively that 
in the mind is the organizing power which shapes 
the structure of the eyes. All that remains to be 
done, then, is to persistently concentrate this 
thought power until it brings the desired result. 
Failure is due to lack of faith in this power, or 
lack of sufficient desire to inspire the continued 
practice of the method until results are manifest. 
This is the law. Results will prove when it has 
been fulfilled. 



HEALING PEACE 

This treatment will place you in touch with the 
healing streams that flow from the Celestial Pres- 
ence of Jehovah-Jehovah. 

Sacred names have each a spiritual quality and 
a relationship with a center of consciousness, and 
the name Jehovah-Jehovah, relates the mind to 
the holiest state of the Divine Mind. The mind 
becomes united through this name with the state 
of infinite peace wherein abide the holiest and 
wisest angels of God, and through this telepathic 
sympathy, receptive minds receive vibrations of 
holy, peaceful, healing emanations, which harmo- 
nize all mental disturbances and bring the peace 
that passeth mortal understanding. This name 
may be used effectively whenever and wherever 
peace is desired, for self or for others. 

Retire from the world when you can — after 
your daily duties are over — and contemplate the 
healing power represented by this holy name. 
When you desire to inbreathe the emanations that 
come from the use of this celestial name, put all 
mortal thought aside, and in the utmost meekness 
and humility of mind bow down before the 
Majesty of that Mysterious Power that resides in 
the angelic spheres, and also within the inmost re- 
cesses of your soul, and your spiritual poverty will 
be filled from the illimitable fullness and boundless 
love of the Father. Praise His Holy Name ! 

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From a meek and lowly chamber of your soul 
there bubbles forth the ethereal waters of peace. 
There is a region within you akin to that essential 
realm of Jehovah-Jehovah, where the crystal Sea 
of Truth is stirred by the vital breath of the In- 
finite One, and the murmuring waves whisper 
words of peace and everlasting serenity. 

Your soul now listens to the voice of omnipotent 
Peace, and the ethereal peace of the Spirit infuses 
your whole nature with the harmony of heaven. 

The crystal Sea at the root of your soul finds 
your mind meek and lowly and receptive to its 
waters of peace that gently flow into your mind 
and harmonize your thoughts with heavenly rest. 

The ethereal potency of the peaceful Presence 
of Jehovah-Jehovah is now permeating your 
whole being, and all the atoms of your body obey 
this law of peace and harmony. 

Healing, soothing peace is the only Presence 
and the only Power. You are saturated with the 
healing glory of Jehovah-Jehovah, and there is 
no cause for mental or physical friction in this 
Holy Presence. 

You are now in the peaceful glory of the In- 
finite One, and there cannot be anything in you 
or around you but boundless peace and love and 
harmony. 

In this Presence: 

There are no mortal minds at war. All is in- 
finite Peace. 

There is no bondage to lust or love. All is 
eternal Harmony. 

There is no vanity or pride, for the essential 
Meekness reigns supreme in all. 



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All the cells of your nature rejoice in the free 
light of boundless Peace, and inbreathe the peace- 
ful vitality of Eternity. 

Glory to Jehovah-Jehovah for the healing 
Peace from the exalted spheres of heavenly, har- 
monious Love. 

ALL IS PEACE! 






MIND MASTERS MATTER 

The laws of matter are responsive to the superior 
laws of mind, and " miracles," so-called, do not 
set aside natural laws but merely show that natural 
laws are subservient to the superior forces of the 
universal Mind. 

There are no miracles in the sense of the viola- 
tion of natural laws. " All things are possible " 
to the human mind when it learns to exercise and 
direct the powers of the soul as did Jesus and the 
mystics and saints of the ages. Then natural laws 
prove obedient to the superior law, of which they 
are but effects. 

The following interesting explanation of the 
marvels performed by highclass Hindu fakirs or 
wonderworkers is taken from the book " Ghost- 
Land," published by the Progressive Thinker Pub- 
lishing Co., Chicago, 111. : 

OCCULT PHENOMENA AMONG THE HINDUS 

11 Like most persons interested in the occult 
side of nature, I had no sooner returned to India, 
where, indeed, my earliest days of childhood had 
been passed, than I became fascinated with the 
extraordinary and preternatural powers displayed 
by Oriental ecstatics. It may not be wholly un- 
interesting to touch upon the methods which I 
myself adopted to master the secret of their pro- 
duction. 

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" My first step was to secure the services of 
two of the most accomplished as well as respec- 
table members of the fakir fraternity, and, having 
taken all the available means at command to at- 
tach them to my interest, not forgetting to sep- 
arate them from each other, so as to avoid the 
possibility of collusion or a systematic attempt to 
deceive me, I had opportunity enough to observe 
many of the most astounding evidences of the 
power these men possessed, as well as to analyze 
at leisure their claims for its origin. In each 
case, as well as in numerous others, where incred- 
ible feats of preternatural wonder were exhibited, 
the fakirs assured me the pitris, or ancestral spir- 
its, were the invisible wonderworkers. 

" Again and again they protested they could 
do nothing without the aid of these spiritual 
allies. Their own agency in the work, they gave 
me to understand, consisted in preparing them- 
selves for the service of the pitris. They alleged 
that the material body was only a vehicle for the 
invisible soul, the spiritual or astral clothing of 
which was an element evidently analogous to the 
i spiritual body ' of the Apostle Paul, the ' mag- 
netic body ' or ' life principle ' of the Spiritists, 
the ' astral spirit I of the Rosicrucians, and the 
1 atmospheric spirit ' of the Berlin Brotherhood. 
This element the Hindoo and Arabian ecstatics 
termed Agasa, Vitality, or the life-fluid. They 
said that in proportion to the quantity and potency 
of agasa in the system, so was the power to work 
marvels by the aid of spirits. Spirits, they added, 
used agasa as their means of coming in contact 
with matter, and when it was abundant and very 
powerful the invisibles could draw it from the 
bodies of the ecstatics and perform with it feats 



Healing Currents i$j 

only possible to themselves and the gods. c Mu- 
tilate the body, lop off the limbs, if you will/ said 
a Brahmin, whom I had also enlisted in my serv- 
ice as a teacher of occultism, ' and with a suffi- 
cient amount of agasa you can instantaneously 
heal the wound. Agasa is the element which 
keeps the atoms of matter together; the knife or 
sword severs it, the fire expels it from its lodgment 
in those atoms; put the agasa back to the severed 
or burned parts before they have had time to 
fester or wither, and the parts must reunite and 
become whole as before.' 

" It is by virtue of agasa that the seed germi- 
nates in the ground and grows up to be a tree, 
with leaves, fruit and flowers. Pour streams of 
agasa on the seed, and you quicken in a minute 
what would else, with less of the life-fluid, occupy 
a month to grow. Charge stones or other in- 
animate objects with agasa drawn from a human 
body, and spirits can make such objects move, fly, 
swim, or travel hither and thither at will ; in short, 
it is through the power of agasa — by which I 
mean force, the life of things — that all the most 
intelligent Hindoos with whom I studied, insisted 
that preternatural marvels could be wrought, al- 
ways adding, however, that spirits must assist in 
the operation, first, because their spiritual bodies 
were all agasa, and next, because they had a knowl- 
edge of this great living force and how to apply 
it, which they could not communicate to mortals. 

" The methods of initiation into these wonder- 
working powers were, I was assured, chastity, 
seasons of profound abstraction, a spirit exalted 
to the contemplation of deity, heaven and heav- 
enly things, and a mind wholly sublimated from 
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was claimed, the body would become subdued and 
the quantity of agasa communicated through the 
elements and by favor of the gods, would be im- 
mensely increased. It would also be more read- 
ily liberated, and under the control of spiritual 
agencies. 

" ' Behold me ! ' cried one of my instructors 
on a certain occasion. ' I am all agasa. This 
thin film of matter wherewith I am covered, these 
meshes of bone that form my framework of life, 
are they not fined away to the tenuity of the ele- 
ments? They hinder not my flight through space, 
neither can they bind me to the earth I am cast- 
ing off.' 

" He proved the truth of his boast by spring- 
ing upwards from the ground which he spurned 
with his foot, when lo ! he ascended into mid-air, 
and whilst his entranced eyes were rolled upwards, 
and his lean, rigid arms and thin hands were 
clasped in ecstasy above his head, he continued to 
soar away nearly to the roof of the vast temple 
in which we were." 

This very beautifully illustrates that we can 
overcome many of the limitations of the material 
body by developing in our flesh a more positive 
degree of vitality. 

Affirm again and again: I am vitality. 
Think vitality, breathe vitality, eat vitality, and 
know that you are the unlimited vitality of God; 
thus you will become a magnet for almighty Vital- 
ity. Think toward each organ of your body: 
You ARE vitality. You are so filled and thrilled 
with vitality that there is no place for disease or 
decay in you. All is vitality. 



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Keep this up unceasingly and it will make you so 
positively vital that health and happiness will reign 
throughout your whole being. 



THE GREAT SYMPATHETIC 

Pathologists tell us that many diseases start in 
blood-stasis or stagnation. Health can exist only 
where there is positive activity or circulation in 
every part of the physical body. Life is syn- 
onymous with activity, and stagnation with death. 
There is but one agent in the building and repair- 
ing of the body, and that is the circulation of the 
blood. It brings substance to every cell in the 
body and carries away waste matter. The blood 
stream is responsible for all bodily building and 
cleansing, for diseased or healthy tissue. If this 
be true, then any means, whether mental or phys- 
ical, that will flush capillaries and quicken the 
circulation should be considered as a great means 
of cure. 

All the circulating fluids in the body are sub- 
ject to the sympathetic nervous system in this 
way: All the activities of the body except those 
of a chemical nature are tubular. Through tubes 
we breathe, circulate, and eliminate. Bile, blood, 
air, food, sweat, pancreatic juice, lymph, and 
saliva all flow through tubes, and the flow is con- 
trolled by the involuntary muscles which consti- 
tute one of the coats of all the tubes in the body. 

By the action of these involuntary muscles we 
perspire, we breathe, our hearts beat, and our 
food is carried through the stomach and intestines. 

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And what makes muscles move ? Nerve stimulus 
— nothing else. Any muscle is inert until it is 
compelled to act by nerve force. The cerebro- 
spinal nerves influence the voluntary muscles, but 
the involuntary muscles are controlled by the 
great sympathetic nerve. The sympathetic nerve, 
then, is the brain that controls circulation, per- 
spiration, digestion, elimination, and all function- 
ing of physical organs. 

The spirit of man, which is often called the sub- 
conscious mind, acts through this great nerve and 
all its ramifications to influence vital action. The 
states of the spirit or subconscious mind are all re- 
flected into physical functions through this nerve. 
According to the quality of the emotions that the 
spirit sends through this nerve will be the state 
of vital action. The chemical quality of saliva, 
liver, and all digestive juices is determined by the 
quality of the spirit. But here is a very important 
fact that is often overlooked by those who are try- 
ing to be consistent in the above point of view. 
Anything that weakens the nerve force, as over- 
indulgence in sense gratifications, anything that 
poisons the system whether it be coffee, tobacco, 
poisonous drugs, serums, or fermenting foods, is 
bound to limit and depress the spirit in its physical 
expression. 

The living, intelligent spirit acting through the 
sympathetic nerve upon the vascular or tubular 
system, tries to throw off the accumulating poisons 
and in doing so produces an acute disease called 
by German Nature Curists a " healing crisis." 
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guise whether they throw off poisons through the 
effect called a cold, pneumonia, or smallpox. The 
German Naturopaths prove in their practice that 
any of these acute healing crises are not harmful 
and leave no bad effects when nature is . intelli- 
gently cooperated with and allowed to free the 
body of limiting matter. In fact their value is 
proved, as they leave the body healthier. But 
modern physicians and even mental healers do not 
recognize the great value of this process of elimi- 
nation and they try to suppress this healing ac 
tivity by thought or by the use of anti-toxic serums 
or poisonous drugs, with the result that the poisons 
accumulate and bring on tuberculosis, cancer, tu- 
mors, rheumatism, or other chronic troubles. 

The spirit can be aroused to positive activity 
in eliminating poisons by mental and spiritual 
means, and the same results can be attained by the 
application of cold packs and cold water to the 
sacral plexuses because both means act through the 
same nerve. In one case the impulse is mental 
and in the other it is more of an electrical na- 
ture. As the false habits of living, heredity, and 
other factors have stored cells with useless sub- 
stance, and as few give the time to attaining that 
spiritual mastery whereby the flesh is kept sub- 
servient to the spirit, it is wise to combine men- 
tal and physical means of healing as long as 
these means recognize and cooperate with the in- 
dividual spirit of life as the great and mighty 
cause of cure. 

When once the body has become purified, and 
all morbid states of mind are corrected by the 



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knowledge of spiritual truth, then the sympathetic 
nerve becomes the open doorway to the subcon- 
scious activities of the spirit. Then the life ab- 
sorbed from the universal Mind by the individual 
spirit can pour through the Sympathetic, and the 
body will become a dynamo of energy and power. 
Then the pure instincts or feelings of nature will 
guide in the knowledge of the quality and amount 
of food to be eaten, and appetite will be obeyed 
because it will lead aright. Then when the tem- 
ple is purified and the soul is resurrected to know 
the Source of Power, the white Light of Divinity 
will shine through all states of nature and reveal 
the beauty and perfection of the Divine Image in 
terms of physical flesh. 

SELF-TREATMENT 

I feel I am a spirit of life vitalizing the sym- 
pathetic nerve. 

I concentrate my attention on the life that is 
now flowing through the entire nervous system. 

I will feel life stirring all sluggish currents to 
positive activity. 

I will concentrate on this inflowing life force un- 
til I feel that every cell in my body is charged with 
its vitalizing energy. 

I am life, dissolving away the accumulated 
poisons and morbid matter. 

I am radiating life to dissolve false growths 
and eliminate all poisons from my nature. 

I am consciously drawing life from the Infinite 
Spirit, and filling this, my temple, with its healing 
energy. 



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I dissolve from my mind and nervous system 
all depressing and passionate feelings, that life, 
all-glorious life, may fill my flesh with strength 
and power. 



LET YOUR SOUL EXPRESS 

Pain and disease in the body are often a crying 
out of its parts to the soul for more life. The 
soul is the mighty magnet that can hold the cells 
and organs of the nature in perfect harmony and 
peace. But when the mighty polarizing power of 
the soul is dormant and covered up by material- 
mindedness, the physical organization is not fed 
with the spontaneous life of the soul, and conse- 
quently cannot carry on its work with the intelli- 
gence and skill necessary to the perfect operation 
of all parts in unity. Where there is this lack 
of vitality from the soul, discord and inharmony 
become manifest in the physical economy. The 
nerves cry out to the soul, " O give us food, that 
we may carry on our active life;" the cells call 
for vitality that they may repair the wasting tis- 
sue, and the joints try hard to make the soul un- 
derstand that they are in need of lubricating oil. 

The soul is a power greater and more intelligent 
than the whole physical nature; it is life; it is cre- 
ative energy; it is the true physician to the body; 
it is the Organizer that can bring all things into 
harmony with its divine pattern. 

Under proper conditions the soul can generate 
from its physical nature any known force that ex- 
ists in external nature, for man is an epitome of 
God and his infinite Nature. Does electricity 
heal? Well, the body is a chemical laboratory, 

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and the action of the chemicals in the physical bat- 
tery is constantly producing currents that are finer 
and more potent than the crude product evolved 
from external nature. Is the human magnetism 
valuable in the cure of diseased conditions? It 
most certainly is, for the physical organism can- 
not exist without a plentiful supply of vital mag- 
netic force. The physical atoms but float in these 
currents, and are carried hither and thither as sub- 
jects of their attractive power. They group 
themselves around centers of force and intelli- 
gence to form the various organs of the body, as 
the iron filings group themselves in circles in the 
magnetic field of a horse-shoe magnet. 

Can the vibrations of the X-ray dissolve ab- 
normal growths from the flesh? Then the soul 
can also free its body of false growths, for it is a 
master hand at producing vibrations more power- 
ful than those of the X-ray machine. 

Let the soul awaken and express through the 
whole body. The body exists for the use of the 
soul and should not try to live a separate exist- 
ence of its own, apart from the soul. Let the 
soul have its body as its own; then, as the soul 
finds free, joyous expression through its human or- 
ganization, it will gather the necessary elements 
from the food, earth, and air for the healing and 
reconstruction of every part. It will fill its body 
with the vitality of God, for the soul is a native 
of eternal Life, and on familiar terms with God, 
the Great Physician. 

The soul will generate a brain full of faith in 
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thought force that will sway every energy and 
organ and atom to the expression of its intelligent 
will. 

The soul is the real Self, the true individual 
that is the very form and likeness of God. Sur- 
render to your souls, O mortals, and you will see 
the mighty Conqueror come. Then the soul will 
say: 

" I am come that ye might have life, and have 
it more abundantly. 

I am the way, the truth and the life. 

I and my Father are one. 

He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." 

The soul must be resurrected, else there is no 
hope of permanent health or the attainment of 
perfection. 

The diseased part may be rubbed and pinched 
and magnetized and electrified and exercised if it 
will help to bring back the circulation of life, but, 
above all, it must be blessed and talked to and in- 
fused with soul force before the healing and sav- 
ing power will manifest perfectly. It matters not 
how badly paralyzed a limb may be, if you can 
call the soul to live in the weakened parts, there 
will be a return of health and satisfying vitality, 
for lo! the soul is the resurrection and the life 
everlasting. 

Let your soul speak these potent words, for 
the words of Jesus are voiced by each soul as it 
comes into manifestation: 

" I proceeded forth and came from God, 
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This is the work of God, that ye might believe 
on Him whom He hath sent. 

I am the bread of life; he that cometh to Me 
shall never hunger, and he that believeth on Me 
shall never thirst. 

For I came down from heaven not to do my 
own will, but the will of Him that sent Me. 

Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood 
(the thoughts and affections of the soul) hath eter- 
nal life: and I will raise him up at the last day. 

As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live 
by the Father, so he that eateth Me, even he shall 
live by Me. 

It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh 
profiteth nothing. 

The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit 
and they are life. 

He that believeth on Me, out of his interior 
shall flow rivers of living water. 

If a man keep my sayings, he shall never see 
death. (He shall realize the eternal conscious- 
ness of the soul while yet in the flesh.) 

Before Abraham was I Am." 



THE TRUE WAY 

There is but one manner of life on this plane 
that will bring satisfaction to the soul and enable 
it to express its powers in an ever-ascending de- 
gree through its physical temple, and that is the 
devotional life. The life that is entirely conse- 
crated and devoted to the God of love and truth 
keeps the door open for the entrance of his inspir- 
ing Presence. Such a life fulfills all the divine 
laws, and the soul attains, while incarnate, a 
greater growth and expression of its powers and 
gains from its earthly experience a power and wis- 
dom that make it a Godlike being in the realms of 
eternal life and bliss. 

You need to keep your mind open toward the 
God of heaven by speaking with intensity and de- 
votion the word of exalted truth to all parts of 
your mind and body. It is the intense devotion 
and love of the whole nature turned in one di- 
rection that polarize the Presence and Power of 
Eternal Truth. Rouse up your spiritual powers 
by using these statements daily : 

My soul is awakened and illuminated by the 
presence and power of Jesus Jehovah. My soul 
is glorified by the light and glory that transfigured 
the living Christ. 

My soul is radiant with the everlasting power 

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of God, and I am satisfied to express this power 
from day to day. 

My soul is regenerating harmoniously, peace- 
fully and satisfactorily. His mighty Glory folds 
me round and holds me in eternal peace. 

The eternal Power is with me. The eternal 
Presence is guiding me in the path of wisdom and 
peace. 

The illuminating life of the Christ is born 
within my soul and all my nature rejoices with 
glad praise and thanksgiving that the Lord of 
heaven and earth has taken up his abode within 
His holy temple. The Lord is in His holy tem- 
ple; let all the earth keep silence before him. 

Glory to God in the highest, Peace on earth, 
Good-will toward men. 



YE ARE SLUMBERING GODS! 

The essential attributes of Elohim are organized 
in your individual soul. The Father has organ- 
ized his omniscient love into a glowing sun of light 
and power, and this divine ego is your soul, your 
true Self, the Lord of your mind and body. 

The living Pearl of Divinity is the Presence of 
God within your nature. You can well afford to 
sell all your accumulations of earthly thought, 
even though it seem a great sacrifice, in order to 
attain to conscious possession of this Pearl of 
great price. 

This divine individual of God, this Christ 
within, is slumbering in the spiritual depths of 
your being, awaiting the quickening word to 
arouse its mighty consciousness into spiritual ac- 
tivity and power. 

" Know ye not that ye are the temple of the liv- 
ing God, 

And the Spirit of God dwelleth within you?" 

Spiritualize your mind and body, or your posi- 
tive and negative mind, with the radiance of the 
Father's presence by prayerful devotion to the 
Lord of souls, for thus you will polarize to your- 
self the spiritual emanations from the Soul of God, 
which will surround and infuse your soul with 
heavenly life and strength, and awaken it again 
to a realization of its mighty possibilities as a liv- 
ing son of God. 

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In fervent devotion of spirit pour out your 
prayers and praises to the Great Glory that is the 
sum of almightiness within and above your soul 
being, and thereby you will generate the quicken- 
ing flame that will set your soul on lire with con- 
scious, blissful power. 

Only in the zeal and purity of a devotional life, 
of a mind and body purified of earthly thoughts 
and desires and living to fulfill the purpose of the 
soul, which is the will of God, can the soul de- 
velop, expand its immortal potentialities, and make 
God manifest in the flesh. 

Unless you are living for your soul, you have 
not learned to live; the great meaning and pur- 
pose of life are to you as a book that has not 
been opened. You are conscious in only the low- 
est and dreariest zone of your consciousness. All 
the blissful pleasures of the higher states of 
thought and feeling in your being, the joyous 
mingling of the positive and negative attributes 
of your spiritual nature, are hidden from you. 
The doors of heaven, through which streams the 
light of eternal consciousness, seem closed, and 
you seek for pleasure and peace where none are to 
be found. 

Turn you to the Light that never fails, to the 
Love that is longing to enfold you in conscious 
bliss; turn from your idols of flesh, which intoxi- 
cate the mind and destroy the body; turn to the 
Lord your God! If you will worship Him with 
the same untiring zeal with which you sought 
transient things, He will reward you with his un- 
changing Love, and your soul will awaken to im- 



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mortal Life; and then with your help it will purify 
and glorify the sacred centers in your body and 
teach you the secret of spiritual alchemy, whereby 
the conserved forces of your body pass through a 
transmutation that refines them into a substance 
necessary to the soul in the expression of the Word 
of Power. 

This knowledge will be useless to you unless 
you have proven your sincerity by overcoming the 
lusts of the flesh and conquering all attractions 
that would draw you from your devotion to your 
divine purpose of making God manifest. For 
without absolute purity of life, the soul, which 
has its birth from the immaculate purity of the 
divine nature, cannot keep in correspondence with 
the flesh, because of the partition of impure 
thoughts and feelings. But when your will, 
coupled with the awakened will of your soul, has 
gained complete dominion over the desires of the 
flesh, your soul will express through your pure, 
true thought, and flood the six sacred centers in 
your body with its soul consciousness. Then will 
you become conscious of the immortality of the 
Sons of God, even in the most negative degree of 
your nature. 

These six sacred centers may be called, because 
of their inner and outer functions, the twelve doors 
of regeneration, for it is through these doors that 
the victorious soul — in the consciousness of 
Christ, and one with Him in the work of the 
Father — enters into conscious expression as the 
son of man. 

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of the holy path of regeneration — this straight 
and narrow path — which leads to the highest 
mastery, and gives the greatest joy and peace to 
the devotee. 

When once you see this path of immortality, 
its purity, its grace, and its bliss, you will be filled 
with a divine enthusiasm to travel it to the su- 
preme goal, and you will see the uselessness of 
all mortal aims that do not help you to fulfill the 
object of your soul's incarnation — the manifesta- 
tion in form and power of the Word of God. 
Once you place your feet on this path you will go 
forward steadily in the progressive wa*y, allowing 
no obstacle to hinder your determination, nor any 
idea of time to disturb your faith; for you will be 
filled with the conviction that you are in the Path 
of Life, and only by systematic effort for days, 
months, and years can you fulfill the object of 
your being. 

When all thoughts and desires of your nature 
are polarized toward the realization of the high- 
est ideal, even the loss of the physical counter- 
part of the mind — the body — will not stop your 
upward progression through the aeons of eter- 
nity. Your soul will continue to inhabit its pure 
mind-body or spirit form, and, like the resurrected 
Jesus, it will -continue the development and re- 
generation of its mental forces and the expression 
of its wisdom and power through its spiritual body 
in all its future progression in the objective realms 
of the universal heavens. 



AWAKE, MY SOUL, AWAKE, AND 
CHRIST SHALL GIVE THEE LIGHT 

" And now, O Father, glorify Thou me with 
Thine own Self with the glory which I had with 
Thee before the world was." — John 17 15. 

Your divine soul nature as a son of God lived 
in the heavens with the Father previous to taking 
up a physical form — " before the world was." 

Just as you would go to Europe or to any part 
of the world for the sake of gaining knowledge; 
just as pioneers have braved the dangers of a sav- 
age and undeveloped country; just as missionaries 
sacrifice home for the sake of doing good to an 
unknown people, so your soul of its own free will 
and choice left its heavenly home, where all was 
light and joy, for the experience to be gained in 
this world of ignorance, for the development of its 
latent powers, for the good it might do others. 
In due time it will return to its " mansion in the 
skies " and rejoice in a fuller and mightier reali- 
zation of God from having sensed and conquered 
the more negative conditions of time and space. 

You, as a personality, do not recall the past be- 
cause your personality did not then exist; your 
limited personal memory is the result of present 
experience; your personality is from below, your 
individuality is from above. Your personality is 
the image and likeness of mortal parents; your 

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soul individuality is the image and likeness of 
God. " The first man is of the earth earthy, the 
second man is the Lord from heaven." Your di- 
vine soul slumbers because of the darkness and 
materiality of mortal mind. But you, like Jesus, 
may awaken your soul to its former realization 
of power and dominion. " If the Spirit of God 
dwell in you. ... If Christ be in you. ... If 
the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the 
dead dwell in you, He that raised Christ from the 
dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his 
Spirit that dwelleth in you. }> — Romans 8:9, 10, 
11. 

Recognize and talk to your soul in the follow- 
ing manner, and its latent powers will respond to 
your recognition and love. There is an exalted 
power in these statements which you will feel as 
you repeat them over and over. 

" Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve 

And press with vigor on. 
A heavenly race demands thy zeal, 

And an immortal crown." 

Awake, my soul, and feel the power of heaven 
that slumbers in thee. 

Awake, and realize that thou art one with the 
power of God. Awake, and realize that thou art 
the angel of his Presence. 

Thou, my soul, art a magnet for the healing 
power of the angels. Thou art a conscious 
power, able to draw on the protecting power of 
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Together we draw on the mighty Spirit of Jesus 
Jehovah to be our shield and buckler, our strength 
and protection. 

My soul, thou art able to call to our aid the 
triumphant Master of Heaven. Thou art able to 
pray for the mystic protection of heaven. 

My soul, I praise the mighty Spirit of God 
within thee. Recall thy power of the divine past, 
and rouse up thy power to dissolve from me all 
dark spirits of earth. We are strong with the 
strength of almighty God. We speak the word 
of power that dissolves away all disturbing mental 
elements. 

We are strong with the strength of eternal life, 
and we can conquer even death. We now realize 
our victory over every negative condition. We 
now realize physical, mental, and soul strength in 
the name of Jesus Jehovah. 

" Father, glorify thy Son, that thy Son also 
may glorify Thee." 



SOUL DEVELOPMENT 

Soul development is accomplished by furnishing 
the soul with a mind of spiritual thought power; 
by building for the soul, which is a globule of 
radiant life and intelligence, a perfect mental bat- 
tery, with a positive and negative pole sufficiently 
strong and intelligent to allow the powers of the 
soul to come into manifestation. This cannot be 
accomplished in a day, nor fully even in a year, 
but is a progressive development through educa- 
tional growth. 

If a strong soul should suddenly awaken to any- 
thing like the state of self-consciousness that it 
realized prior to incarnation, the quick transfor- 
mation could not be borne by the mind and body; 
there would be such a disturbance of equilibrium 
as to cause a separation between the soul and the 
body. Therefore, each soul awakening must be 
followed by such soul expression as will tune the 
mind and body to a more intense vibration of spir- 
itual force, before the human nature is prepared 
for another endowment of power from * on 
high." 

The first step toward soul expression is to dis- 
solve the erroneous beliefs of the race from the 
mind, the beliefs of mortal mind in an evil power 
or presence, which keep the mind in a negative 
and powerless condition; and the second step is 

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to establish a body of faith, through an under- 
standing of the powerful presence of Truth and 
Intelligence. 

The negative conditions of individuals result 
from lack of mental development in the right di- 
rection; from lack of true faith. There is a posi- 
tiveness above the strength of mortal mind, in the 
faith generated from the Mind of God. True 
faith is formulated from true thinking, and is a 
positively intelligent mental force capable of cul- 
tivation to that degree of power where it will 
overcome every negative condition of mind, sub- 
jective or objective. 

The soul is Divine Spirit individualized. 
Thought is the vehicle of Spirit. Thoughts of 
truth and love are spiritual vibrations embodying 
the intelligence and power of the soul. The soul 
can find conscious expression only through 
thoughts akin to its own nature, therefore such 
time as is spent in meditation on the I Am, affirm- 
ing truths of the soul, is wisely spent, and devel- 
ops a mental body of such positive intelligence as 
will allow the soul consciousness to come into ob- 
jective expression. This spiritual study and af- 
firmation develop a positive pole for the soul bat- 
tery, and through this positive pole the soul will 
gradually control its negative pole of mind — the 
body — and bring every negative tendency of the 
sense mind into subjection to its wise dominion. 

Everything is the intelligence of God in higher 
or lower degrees of expression. Everywhere is 
the potential Presence full of illumination and 
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names which make all things seem commonplace, 
and we lose our mortal concept of them and are 
face to face with an indefinable, intelligent force, 
the visibility of the All-Substance, in which are lat- 
ent unlimited possibilities ready to yield obedience 
to any idea that the man of God chooses to formu- 
late. 

The great consciousness that " All is Good " is 
in our souls awaiting realization. Constantly af- 
firming " All is Good " is one method of polariz- 
ing mind and brain cells from their weak and 
negative condition to that state where they can 
become the body of that mighty spiritual idea — 
the soul. 

God is an inconceivable Power right with us, in 
our thoughts and in our bodies, ready to formu- 
late in our faith in any way that we may think. 
We are surrounded by the omnipotent Power day 
and night, and we have- only to use our thought 
and will to bring this miraculous Power into ex- 
pression. 

Our thoughts are living cups which, when 
rightly formed, become receptacles for the wine 
of the Spirit. When the thoughts are pure and 
good they are filled with divine intelligence and 
unite us with the omniscience of the God-Mind, 
giving us to know without effort the mysteries of 
Godliness. 

* Thought is the current that circulates be- 
tween the positive Mind of God and the negative 

* The words " thought " and " thought-power " are used in 
this and other places to embrace the idea of feeling, as there is 
no word to express thought and feeling in one. 



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mind of humanity. Through thought the positive 
Mind acts upon the negative mind. The thought 
of God is the Holy Spirit. Only through thought 
can God be made known to man. Man can ex- 
press as much of God as he can generate by 
thought and feeling, for unless a man thinks posi- 
tive thoughts of truth and responds to divine emo- 
tions there is no direct connection between his 
mind and the Mind of God. God is within the 
soul, and the soul is a form of God that has 
grown to its present strength and wisdom through 
thinking, feeling, and expressing the God power 
latent within. And it is only by constant, devoted 
thought that the soul can build itself a temple of 
thought within the flesh and express what it knows 
of God for the benefit of fellow souls. 

Souls are hindered in their growth and develop- 
ment by the darkness and materiality of mortal 
existence. But the soul contains an individualized 
power of dominion gained from experience in past 
lives on earth and in heaven, and the spell of ma- 
teriality can be broken, allowing the powers of the 
spiritual nature to express in even greater degree 
than ever before. 

It is necessary in soul development for students 
to set aside part of the time, when they will be 
free from all interference, either in a room apart, 
or close to nature and nature's God. Then ma- 
terial work and plans and all thought of material 
things should be put aside, and the whole mind 
given to deep study — not in extended reading, 
but in application to the lessons and thoughts that 
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acter and dominion. Then the angelic visitants 
from the immortal spheres will be attracted to the 
devotee; they will touch the magical springs of the 
soul life as only awakened souls can, and bring 
from the Holy One the emanations that will sat- 
isfy the mind with the peace of eternity and 
quicken the soul to a new consciousness of its 
power as an expression of the heavenly Father. 
The manifestors of the Almighty Good will come 
to those who make and keep themselves positive 
with faith in the power of Elohim — omnipresent 
and omnipotent Love — and weave the ethereal 
potency of the Holy Presence into their aspiring 
natures. 

All Praise to Elohim! 






THE GLOBE OF GLORY 

The Egyptians had a true conception of the soul, 
for their symbol of the soul was a winged globe. 
A true conception of the soul and of the triune 
nature of man is necessary as a foundation for di- 
vine growth and unfoldment. Man has a soul 
related to the soul-nature of God, a mind related 
to the mind of God, and a body through which he 
expresses in the external nature of God; thus he 
is a perfect image of the nature of God. 

Imagine a globe of glory, a living sphere of in- 
telligent light organized from the omniscience of 
God, and you have an idea of your soul in its 
awakened state. This soul globule is intelligent 
with the wisdom of God, alive with the vitality 
of God, and nothing less than a radiant form of 
his pure glory. God is the Mother and Father 
of the soul. Each soul is a son (sun) of God — 
a Christ. Your soul is God manifesting — your 
lord and redeemer. 

"The Lord said unto my Lord: Sit thou at 
my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy 
footstool" — Psalms lion. 

In this scriptural passage the Father speaks to 
the individual soul, or lord of the body, telling 
it to sit on the right side, the true side, the positive 
side, that it may realize the power to overcome all 
things. 

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Your soul is a stranger to you and you have no 
realization of its godlike powers and attributes. 
When great emotions have been quickened in you 
by beautiful music, or you have been overwhelmed 
by a great joy, then your soul has been stirred a 
little and you have sensed its presence. He who 
knows his soul and obeys its will lives in an ecstasy 
of divine realization; heaven lives in him now. 

It is a common idea that the mind is only in the 
brain, but the truth is that the mind is a body 
of mental force, just as the physical organism is 
a body of physical force. The mind-body is the 
residence of all life, sensation, and memory, for 
it is the essence and cause of the physical body. 
At the dissolution of the body, the spiritual or 
mind-body, which has held the flesh in form, floats 
free from the physical body ; and as this mind-body 
is the sum of all knowledge, memory and volition 
of the personality, it can be readily seen that a per- 
son feels, sees and acts just the same in the spirit- 
ual body as in the physical, with the difference that 
he is not limited by the weight and grossness of 
the physical form. Imagine your body so light 
that it could float through space and be propelled 
in any direction by the action of your will, and you 
will have a perfect idea of your mind-body or 
spiritual form in which you will find yourself when 
you lay aside your cumbrous but useful physical 
instrument. 

You are in this spirit form now, and this spirit 
form is your personal self, but being infused into 
your flesh, you are so strongly identified with it 
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enter the spiritual world to begin a larger expe- 
rience, you will be astonished to find how complete 
you are. I can tell you these things because, un- 
der the directions of the Masters from the ce- 
lestial sphere, I have gained the power to lay my 
body down and take it up at will, that I might 
be free to enter the heavenly worlds and gain a 
knowledge of truth which would be of great bene- 
fit to humanity. 

The physical body, the spiritual body, and the 
soul body are each on a different plane of being. 
To illustrate: A person in the flesh, a decar- 
nate spirit, and a celestial being may all be in the 
same room, and the mortal may not see the spirit 
or the celestial soul, and the spirit may not see the 
being from a higher or more interior state of exist- 
ence; but the highest evolved being of the three 
may see both the unawakened spirit and the un- 
awakened mortal. Each person is a spiritual en- 
tity, and has potential within him the soul of a 
god, and yet may not be cognizant of it. True 
knowledge uncovers the mysteries that have veiled 
the divine constitution of man, and enables man to 
know that there is One within him who is the res- 
urrection and the life everlasting. 

Jesus was awake to his soul being, and realized 
as every one must realize sometime, somewhere, 
that He was one with the Father, and a manifes- 
tation of the Presence of the Father. Your soul, 
if it were awake, could say of itself with equal 
truth all that Jesus said of Himself. 

The soul is the life of both the physical and 
spiritual bodies. Under present conditions the 



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soul does not express much of its divine life or 
power through the body, but the education is be- 
ing spread broadcast which will awaken the souls 
of humanity, and cause them to express more and 
more of heavenly grace. 

True spiritual knowledge is imparted to spirits 
as they rise free from earthly impediments, with 
the result that in time the soul awakens to the 
memories of palst lives, and the experience of its 
last incarnation is blended with all the knowledge 
gained during its progress in the past. 

When that glorious state is reached where the 
soul realizes itself one with God and awake to the 
delights of ages of experience and effort, where 
it can review all its manifestations and see the 
reason for all things, it will no longer need to ap- 
pear in any particular form as it did on earth, un- 
less it wishes to manifest in the lower spiritual 
worlds in a form recognizable to some one who 
knew its personality. 

The soul in its own estate needs not hands with 
which to feel nor eyes with which to see, for it 
is all sensation and all sight — an omniscient form 
of the God-Mind. Soul with soul can commune 
by a blending of spheres, which conveys with the 
rapidity of thought all that one wishes to impart 
to another. In the God-Mind the soul may blend 
with the spheres of angels and archangels exist- 
ing in. the Sea of Divinity, whose blissful wisdom 
vibrates through all spheres out into the boundless 
expanse of immortal worlds. 

Even while we are living in the body our souls 
may be awakened to the joys of the past through 



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divine instruction, and we may sense the thrill of 
the divine vibrations as the emanations of holy 
souls come to us laden with celestial inspira- 
tion. 

When the soul desires to incarnate, this globe 
of light and love descends from ethereal realms, 
and by identifying itself with the fetus, it quick- 
ens the infant form with individual life. The soul 
becomes a potential power within the tiny infant 
form, and gradually develops for itself a new 
brain and new faculties for physical expression. 

When the child is about twelve years of age, 
the soul may begin to express somewhat of its own 
individuality, but it is a spiritual entity and can 
truly express itself only through a mind educated 
in spiritual truths. In the majority of cases the 
mind is developed and expanded with earthly 
knowledge, but the things that pertain to the soul 
are not considered of practical use; so instead of 
being stimulated with love and blessings, the soul 
more often is covered over with condemnation and 
false beliefs that close up all the mental avenues 
through which its power and beauty would shine 
forth. Thus the living Christ of each one is cruci- 
fied by the ignorance of the world. 

" Though Christ a thousand times and more 

In Bethlehem's stall be born, 
If He's not born within thyself, 

Thy soul is still forlorn." 

You can fill your mind with heavenly knowl- 
edge, and the memories of heaven and its joys 
will awaken within your soul, so that you will be 



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a radiant center of living joy. You can bless 
every one and everything with the love that 
springs up within your soul from God as you begin 
to realize that you are the love of God expressing. 
The rainbow tints of light will illuminate your 
soul, and your mind will grow more luminous day 
by day, until your presence will dissolve all fear 
and pain and fill with celestial gladness the sleep- 
ing souls of mortals, so that they will be quickened, 
and, after a time, awakened to live in the full 
glory in which you live. 

And as the divine germ of Omnipotence in you 
develops and expands, you will feel more and 
more godlike until your whole life becomes a song 
of praise to the indwelling glory of Jehovah-Nissi, 
your self-existent Victory. 

Glorious, most glorious, to the eye of the soul 
are those transcendent beings who inhabit the ce- 
lestial sphere of the Christ. Each one is a Globe 
of Glory, radiant as a living Sun with the light 
and heat of God's eternal love and wisdom; but 
loveliest of all is the transcendent grace of that 
mightiest monarch of souls, the Sun of Righteous- 
ness, Jesus Christ. The combination of all the 
mighty souls who have evolved through ages of 
time to the most sublime degree of unfoldment, 
forms the central nucleus in the universal soul of 
God, and from this glorious sphere of light and 
love these angels and archangels send out the 
emanations of the God power to the farthest ex- 
tremes of God's universe, to quicken and awaken 
the mighty germ that lies slumbering in the being 
of each individual. 



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Think of Jesus on the mount being transfig- 
ured by the glory of his own awakened soul : 

" The awful glory of that day 

When all the Father's brightness shone 

Through manhood's veil of clay." 

Then bring to yourself the realization of the 
same quickening power by thinking of the globe 
of glory within you, which is your own individual- 
ized soul power. Hold the words: glory, 
glory, glory, and inbreathe into your own soul 
the Glory of the Master-Soul as you commune 
with Him in the silence. Think of his Glory as 
living, loving Intelligence. After a little prac- 
tice you will sense the emanations of his Holy 
Presence that are imparted by the angelic hosts 
to every soul who will place itself in the proper 
attitude to receive the Holy Spirit. 

" We all, with open interior 

Beholding as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, 

Are changed into the same image 

From glory to glory, 

Even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 






THUS SPEAKS THE LIVING SOUL 

I am an immortal Son of God. 

I live in endless Splendor. 
I breathe the Spirit of Eternity. 

I see with Omniscient Eye. 
I know that All is Good. 

I am radiant with Omnipotent Love. 
I am the Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting. 

I and my Father are One. 



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HOW TO REALIZE GOD 

O blessedness all bliss above, 

When Thy pure fires prevail! 
Love only teaches what is love ; 

All other lessons fail. 
We learn its name, but not its powers ; 
Experience only makes it ours. 

— Guyon. 

Philosophy is very interesting to the intellect, 
but it does not satisfy the heart. Science reveals 
the working of the laws of God's nature, but the 
secret of his Presence is not discerned. Music is 
the most uplifting and inspiring of the arts; it 
moves our souls and often makes us feel what 
science and philosophy cannot explain. Music 
attunes us to the Spirit, and causes us to feel the 
deep pulsations of the soul nature. 

God is Love, the great emotion of life, the su- 
preme motion that imparts life and activity to all 
things. 

To know this is to understand the essential truth 
of Being; but the mere intellectual apprehension 
of this truth will not satisfy the heart, nor fill the 
life with the bliss of the Divine Being. Nor will 
mental acceptance of the truth that God is love 
impart the divine motion, his transforming emo- 
tion to the feelings, so that one is forever after a 

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new being, filled with the joyous health and hap- 
piness of the Spirit of Love. 

God is love, and love does not flow into the in- 
tellect; love enters the feelings and affections and 
inspires all the emotions of the heart. The in- 
tellect has its use in the development of a rational 
faith; the intellect sees the light of God's presence, 
but the heart feels the ecstasy of divine realiza- 
tion. The true way to realization is so simple 
that many, after hearing of it, consider it of so 
little importance that they continue to search 
among the complex fabrications of philosophy for 
the joy which comes only through the awakened 
emotions of the heart. 

The difference between mortal love and the love 
of God is this: Mortal love is personal and thus 
limited in its pleasure, and often causes pain be- 
cause it is selfish. Immortal love transcends all 
personal limitations; it is impersonal and unlimited 
in its joy-giving power. Personal love feels for 
a few ; the love of God feels for all. 

If you would realize God, love! If you can 
awaken your love nature, and, without thought of 
recompense, pour yourself out as a blessing for 
others, you will forget the petty vexations that 
spring from the limitations of your personality; 
you will forget yourself in the supreme joy of lov- 
ing; you will realize the love for others which is 
God. 

Behold! an angel stands before you! He is 
all radiant with the glory of the Father's Pres- 
ence. His face shines with the realization of the 
beauty of holiness; every feature expresses the 



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purity, the tenderness, and the nobility of Divine 
Love personified. His presence breathes out the 
music of love, the harmony of heaven. His 
whole being vibrates with the light of God. Even 
his garments are luminous with the joyous radi- 
ance that proceeds from his soul. You see the 
image of God's likeness — of Love — and your 
soul is enraptured with the vision of divine love- 
liness, as it feels the benediction of love streaming 
from the angelic character. 

That angel in all his beauty, in all his power, is 
the realization of the Spirit of Divinity, is the vis- 
ibility of God — Love expressing through an in- 
dividual form. And that angel expresses the pos- 
sibilities of your real Self, your soul, the image 
and likeness of God. Within your soul are the 
attributes of Divinity, the powers and possibilities 
of the mightiest archangel. 

Let your soul express and you will realize that 
you are the angel of his Presence. When you 
walk the streets and mingle with the people, keep 
in mind the truth that you are that beautiful angel 
radiant with joyous love to all creatures, and you 
will find a new joy in life; you will feel that the 
kingdom of heaven is now a divine verity, and you 
will allow the truth which makes the kingdom har- 
monious and perfect — the truth of love — to 
manifest through your character. 

I have read of a number of nuns, who, living in 
retirement from the world, passed their whole 
time praying for and blessing humanity. Those 
who had caught a glimpse of them said it was evi- 
dent to the sight that they lived in the joy of 



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heaven, for their faces were transformed with the 
wonderful beauty of expressing souls. 

Not by breathing exercises, not by mental gym- 
nastics, but by expressing love will you realize 
God. 

I have walked among people in the realization 
that I existed but to impart the joyous light of 
love to ignorance-darkened souls, and while radiat- 
ing a blessing to these souls in need, I have felt my 
soul thrilled with the Holy Spirit; I have felt the 
love of God for humanity, and to feel that is to 
feel what Christ felt, the Spirit of Mercy, which 
endowed him with wisdom and healing power. 
While listening to music I have held myself in this 
attitude of mind: " I am Thy love to all souls. 
I am the angel of Thy presence illuminating all 
souls with the wisdom of love," and so great be- 
came the ecstasy of my soul that I felt like crying 
out for joy. The wonderful Breath of the Spirit 
became so mighty in its deep, mysterious move- 
ments through my being that I could scarcely con- 
tain myself. 

Those who are unawakened conceive of God as 
a profound stillness; their idea of peace is a state 
of inactivity. But there is no stillness anywhere. 
Only in the realm of matter is there any degree 
of inactivity, and matter is only relatively inactive 
in comparison with the more refined activities of 
mind. As we enter the deeper nature of man the 
activity as well as the complexity of active forces 
increases, and culminates in the Spirit of the soul, 
which is the breath or motion of Omnipotence, the 
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There are two movements of the love nature, 
love for God, and love for the neighbor. All re- 
ligious systems have developed God lovers — dev- 
otees who became infatuated with the divine ideal 
as manifested through an individual — and many 
of these have spent their lives in ecstasies of devo- 
tion. They wedded themselves to the teacher or 
savior, who to them was God personified, and 
poured out their thoughts in the extravagant lan- 
guage of the lover to his beloved. Jesus revealed 
the harmonious balance; through intense devotion 
He realized the love of God and then poured it 
out in sympathy and compassion for the allevia- 
tion of suffering. He expressed the way, the 
truth, and the very life of the Father in his own 
personality. God becomes real in the character 
of the Christ. We see how God feels and acts 
toward us. Many cannot get a realization of the 
Father's love except through looking to the Christ 
as an example. Oh, how few realize the wonder 
of his Presence, the merciful act of his soul in sac- 
rificing the bliss of highest heaven, for the sake of 
revealing the way to the Father's love, that hu- 
man souls might be saved from walking in the path 
of pain and defeat. Only a God could be so for- 
getful of self; only love in its purity and power 
could will to accomplish so great a mercy. 

The mightiest archangel visited this planet on 
a mission of mercy ! The Spirit of Infinite Love 
was able to speak to humanity through the highly 
developed and fully awakened soul of Jesus. 
God talked to the souls walking in the valley of 
ignorance, and tried to tell them the healing truth, 






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the saving truth, the inspiring truth that they 
were His own immortal sons; that within their 
natures slumbered the possibilities and powers of 
gods; that they were immortal seeds of God's love 
sown in the earth, and from this sowing God 
would reap a harvest of living, conscious souls. 

If mortals could but see the beauty of this truth, 
the goodness of all that exists in the infinite na- 
ture, they would live to love and praise; they 
would rejoice in their power of love and become 
radiant blessings of love to each other. 

You have no idea of the spiritual power that 
you may realize by the exercise of the spirit of 
Love towards others. You must begin sometime 
if you wish ever to enter the kingdom of Love. 
Death will not translate you into the kingdom of 
loveliness, if you are unlovely in character. 
Neither will death plunge you into any greater 
misery than you now realize. It will tend to free 
you from many false beliefs and set you to search- 
ing for the way which you should have found while 
in the flesh; but if you have not cultivated the ex- 
pression of soul love, neither God nor angel can 
transform your feelings at once so that you can 
appreciate an atmosphere of beauty and refine- 
ment in the society of immortal souls of love and 
wisdom. 

But why wait for death? Embrace the oppor- 
tunities that present themselves in the eternal 
Now. Now shed that love and compassion which 
covers and conquers all things, for you will never 
walk the same path twice, and an opportunity neg- 
lected is lost forever. 



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Begin with the lowliest creatures of earth. 
Think of the tiny forms of life inhabiting the 
blades of grass, living under the stones, swimming 
through the water, and filling the woods with a 
murmuring music that chants the praises of uni- 
versal life. Every one of these tiny creatures 
is an organization of mental energy individualiz- 
ing the universal Mind and Substance. The lit- 
tle minds within these beings do not die when the 
body decays; they continue to exist in the uni- 
versal Mind. They reinhabit other forms, grow- 
ing step by step from lower to higher forms, gain- 
ing intelligence and power through their endless 
evolution. 

You can help on the evolution of these small 
minds. Think of the great length of time that 
must elapse before these little forms of mind shall 
have evolved to the place where they will be self- 
conscious as you and I are self-conscious. Do you 
not feel a sympathy with their active endeavors 
to gain and grow in intelligence? You can help 
them by blessing them with your love and intel- 
ligence. When you bless a butterfly, for instance, 
the whole race of butterflies feels the waves of 
force which proceed from your mind, and their 
minds are strengthened by the influx. So you, 
with your more highly developed powers of soul 
and mind, can aid every creature in existence. 
God loves, and embraces all creatures in his love. 
If you would realize God you must enlarge your 
love to feel as God feels. In universal Love 
there cannot be any condemnation for anything. 
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Bless all things in the mineral, vegetable, and 
animal kingdoms; then you will feel more in- 
spired with love for humankind. 

Think of the myriads who are suffering physi- 
cal pain and mental anguish for lack of the love 
which would quicken the healing power within 
their souls and give them peace. Believe, when 
you send out your blessing of love to them, that 
your love will set their souls to vibrating; that 
they will feel the blessing and lift up their hearts 
in praise to the Father, who has inspired your 
thought and feeling with his healing peace. Do 
this in his Name, for Love's sake, and you will be 
warmed and healed by the love you shed abroad. 

You will learn from this practice how to start 
the mighty stream of love to flowing, and once 
you have it started you can direct it into any part 
of your own organism in need of its life-giving 
and transforming power. * It will start as a little 
trickling rivulet, but as you encourage its expres- 
sion it will wash from your mind the obstacles to 
its progress as it flows outward through your na- 
ture. It will wash away the mud and melt away 
the granite in your mind; it will become a rushing 
torrent of spiritual energy that will convert all 
the streams of your thought and feeling into one 
mighty motive of divine purpose, which will link 
your will and all the forces of your nature to the 
omnipotent purpose of God, and allow his love- 
power to manifest through you. 

This is the goal toward which evolution is push- 
ing you. This is the supreme attainment of di- 
vine unity with Elohim. This is the way to rea- 
lize and manifest the love which is God. 



REALIZATION 

These affirmations, when made in the* proper 
spirit, will awaken the feeling o«f divine love and 
develop the presence of God within you. 

I desire that the Spirit of Christ shall radiate 
through my soul, mind, and body for the inspira- 
tion of humanity. 

I am a radiant center of soul life to all my 
world. 

I am an impersonal lover of humanity. From 
my soul flows the fountain of impartial and im- 
personal love to all the children of the Father. 

With true understanding I behold the immortal 
soul of each individual as a quenchless spark o-f 
Divinity, and to these immortals, clothed in the de- 
ceptive garb of mortal personality, I give my spirit 
of living love. 

I am a soul-sun of love and wisdom to all hu- 
man kind. I bless the good and the bad, knowing 
that all are children of the Father, in process of 
evolution. 

My soul loves to feel that it is a strength and 
comfort to all souls. 

My soul loves to feel that it is fulfilling the 
work of the Christ in strengthening the poor in 
spirit. 

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alted souls in heaven, and now the radiations of 
my love and light reach out to all souls incarnate, 
uplifting and inspiring all within my sphere of in- 
fluence. 

I am a link in a chain of souls uniting Elohim 
with the lowest states of life, and through my love 
for all life I have an omnipresent influence for 
good. 

I praise and bless the evolving life in the min- 
eral and vegetable kingdoms of nature, and in re- 
sponse to my recognition and blessing, a wave of 
omnipresent vitality comes flowing back to me. 

I recognize and bless the intelligence of God 
that is striving to manifest throughout the animal 
kingdom. 

I bless the lowly ones in human form who have 
not yet realized the omnipresence of God. I bless 
them with the quickening light of eternal life. 

My words and thoughts of blessing clothe the 
spiritual light in vibrant, substantial form, ena- 
bling the light of God to reach the lowest depths 
of mortal mind. 

My thoughts of truth shall be living, quicken- 
ing seeds of immortal life, sown in mortal minds ; 
in God's good time they will bear fruit and lead 
minds to the Sun of Righteousness. 

I am a mighty magnet radiant with the attrac- 
tive power of the Christ love and compassion, that 
continually draws souls to the immortal Christ. 

My life and mind and soul shall serve and 
praise the immortal Jesus Jehovah whose Spirit 
has led me into the path of everlasting bliss. 



DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD BE 

DONE BY 

The true philosophy of life revives the Christ 
healing power. It is alive with healing energy. 
The same mighty Spirit of Love that healed 
through Jesus is willing and able to heal the sick 
now, if the mental conditions of faith and expec- 
tancy are aroused. 

Every morning and evening pour out your bless- 
ings of healing love upon those who are reading 
truth in expectation of healing. Even though 
you are sick, do this in his Love, and you will be- 
come one with the healing currents from the spirit- 
ual worlds, and you will feel uplifted, inspired, 
and healed by the Spirit of Love which unites all 
blessings into a great battery of healing power. 
It will grow stronger as greater numbers cooper- 
ate in sending out the healing thought. Wonder- 
ful will be the results ! 

Almost miraculous have been some of the re- 
sults already. The angel worlds stand ready to 
pour down their blessings and power upon us. 
They are but waiting for us to open the door of 
our hearts and start the current to flowing. The 
Holy Spirit will enter the current of our loving 
thoughts and inspire us with its healing Power. 
Remember that the Immortal Christ, mightier 
than ever in his individual healing power, is wait- 

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ing at the door of your heart, desiring to express 
his love, through the medium of your affections, 
to souls living in the mind of the world. With his 
glorified Presence of love in mind, pour out your 
thoughts and feelings toward others who, like 
yourself, are looking for healing. 

You do not need a fixed thought, as your feel- 
ings will form thoughts of blessing, but this 
thought will help you to understand how to begin. 
" I bless all who are sick with the healing love of 
Jesus Jehovah, whose Spirit is the life of my 
soul." You will become all aglow with healing 
love. You will develop the capacity to realize 
heavenly feelings. Joy, such as you have never 
before realized, will gladden your heart and en- 
lighten your soul. God will become real to you. 
What a transforming power this practice, long 
continued by many devoted souls, will bring into 
the currents of the world 'mind! 

God is almighty in his own state of Love. But 
only as mortals in negative states of life realize 
the Love of God does Love gain power in the 
lower strata of mortal existence and influence hu- 
man society. Therefore every heart that pours 
out the love of God toward humanity helps to in- 
crease the power of God with mortals, and be- 
comes a fulcrum upon which God can rest his lever 
in lifting mankind out of their state of ignorance 
and misery. 

I know you will get wonderful realizations from 
this practice, because I have my own experience 
and many letters from those who are expressing 
their soul-love in this way, to confirm what I say. 



ORGANIZATION 

In the beginning was Organizing Power. 
Through the process of organization infinite Life 
took form as God's universal nature. Without 
the law and process of organization there could 
be no form of any kind. 

Whenever the Spirit of God has anything to ac- 
complish, an organization of atoms, of forces, of 
individuals, or of souls is evolved for its accom- 
plishment. Even the atom is held by modern 
science to be an organization composed of a nu- 
cleus surrounded by a large or small number of 
electrons. Thus the atom is composed of a cen- 
tral spark of force with a number of smaller par- 
ticles of force surrounding it. Atoms are aggre- 
gated together to build every variety of form in 
existence. The solar system is but an atom 
greatly magnified. Every force, material or 
spiritual, evolves a suitable organization for its 
expression and manifestation. 

If, in the early history of the planet, atoms had 
not begun to organize and build forms the human 
form would never have been produced; the hu- 
man body is the most perfect organization that 
nature has yet evolved. 

The Law of Organization is not limited to this 
material world. It is the forming power of the 
spiritual worlds. We see an intelligent power 

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working to organize atoms into forms for the 
expression of various qualities, and we see the 
same law working through human intelligence to 
draw together minds of like motive and thought 
for the fulfilling of ideals. What we see nature 
doing apparently in a blind way, and what we see 
human beings doing lamely, we may be sure more 
spiritualized nature and more spiritual beings are 
doing according to the greater wisdom and freer 
expression of power that pertains to higher states 
and beings. 

Around and above us there is a mighty organi- 
zation of souls, of living, eternal beings, invisible 
to physical sight but nevertheless of great influence 
in the mind of the race. There is a supreme 
Head to this vast organization of souls, a central 
Soul of majesty and power whose being is the key- 
note of the whole. The triumphant soul of Jesus 
of Nazareth is the Lord "of lords and King of 
kings. He is the true Master of souls, whether 
they be free or incarnate. He is the supreme or- 
ganizer of souls. 

As the planets are held by the attraction of the 
sun, or the little particles of electric energy are 
held by the central spark in the atom, so the sons 
of God, the souls of " just men made perfect," 
are attracted to that Soul who is the Sun of Right- 
eousness, and with Him form the mightiest or- 
ganization in existence. 

All souls who have awakened to the conscious- 
ness of the Christ power, all who have realized 
God as the soul power of their being, and have 
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by the exercise of that power, have, in the spirit- 
ual worlds, risen to the soul estate of gods, and 
live and work with Christ for the education and 
upliftment of humanity, both incarnate and de- 
carnate. They have realized in their own souls 
the mercy of God. They realize divine compas- 
sion for souls bound by the limitations of igno- 
rance, and they work and pray unceasingly that 
the light may penetrate the darkness of mortal 
ignorance and dispel the gloom and sorrow which 
oppress humanity. 

If there were only the mechanical law of reap- 
ing what we sow, we might never hope for free- 
dom from the unceasing fruitage of mistaken 
thoughts and acts. We should be bound forever 
to reap all the evil thoughts that we had sowed in 
the Mind of the world. The seeds of past wrong 
thoughts would continually come to fruitage in dis- 
cordant conditions of mind and body. The Hin- 
dus taught that souls are bound to the wheel of 
the law of cause and effect, bound by what they 
termed Karma. They deified Karma and gave it 
unlimited power, as the unenlightened Christians 
deified the Devil and made him almost equal with 
God; both were bound in slavish fear to their own 
ignorant beliefs. But we now have caught a 
gleam of heavenly truth. We now know that sin 
and sickness have no right to limit the soul's ex- 
pression. We know that by faith in the goodness 
of truth, by exercise of our positive thoughts of 
truth, we may dissolve the evil seeds of past sow- 
ing and consume all their rank mental growths. 
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Jesus Christ and his ministering host of angels, 
we are saved from the sins of ignorance ; our souls 
realize their inherent, God-given dominion over 
all Karmic laws, over all mental causation, and are 
enthroned with Christ at the right hand of Power, 
in the realization of the omnipotence of the 
Cause of causes, the glorious truth of divine Love. 

The beneficent light of heaven is poured into 
our souls by the ministering hosts of the Christ, 
and the slumbering soul spark within us is quick- 
ened; new aspirations are born, and we desire to 
know and feel higher ideals. The quenchless 
flame of love is kindled within our souls and our 
bodies become filled with and healed by the living 
glory of our immortal nature. To the age-long 
work of the Christ and his redeemed souls must 
all credit be given for the golden glory that now 
illuminates the Mind of the world, which is now 
as never before saving humanity from the do- 
minion of sin, sickness, and death. The work 
that the Father gave Him to do, and which He 
started during his earthly incarnation, has grown 
in grace and power through the ages, especially in 
the spiritual realms — until now the hosts of 
heaven of every race and creed and color are mar- 
shaled for the glorious consummation of mani- 
festing the kingdom of love and peace, health and 
prosperity, on earth as it is manifested in heaven. 

With wondrous rapidity minds are awakening 
to the light of truth that is shed all about them. 
Souls are being kindled all over the world. 
Many voices in many tongues are telling of the 
healing, saving Spirit of Truth, and whenever the 



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full conditions are made the Spirit heals. Some 
have tried to gain a monopoly of the truth and 
claim all rights to its promulgation. Organiza- 
tions cannot bind or limit the great Light that is 
flooding the earth. We need not fear that any- 
thing but good can come from any organization. 
Organization has been especially useful in over- 
coming the prejudice and ignorance of old creeds 
and superstitions, and as a protection for the pio- 
neers of truth in the wilderness of ignorance 
against the world's savage resistance to truth. 

" As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they 
become the Sons of God " radiant with the divine 
glory of love and wisdom individualized within 
the soul. They are led by the Spirit of peace and 
purity. They are fed constantly on supernal love 
and wisdom. Their souls glow with the sub- 
stance divine, and they know their kingship as 
sons of Elohim. Even while incarnate they know 
the companionship of the immortal sons of God, 
ancient in wisdom and power. They love his 
name and keep his precepts, and the Christ Spirit 
of mercy and grace abides within and expresses 
from their souls, radiating from them to quicken 
and strengthen other souls. They are ministered 
unto by the holy angels, and in turn minister unto 
souls in need. 

In the name and love of our Lord and Master 
— the Lord of hosts — we find the fulfillment of 
all the desires of our souls. In his Name comes 
the comforter — the Holy Spirit — through the 
ministering power of the holy angels, filling the 



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soul with love, the mind with wisdom, and the 
body with life and health; and even bringing into 
the life of the one who fulfills the divine law a 
prosperity which is unfailing. 

Your soul is composed of the glory of God, of 
his radiant, divine substance, sparkling with con- 
scious realization of endless life and love. Take 
this affirmation of praise into your mind and 
heart: 

" Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts, 
The whole earth is full of His Glory.'* 

Know that your soul is alive with the glory or 
God. Strive to realize that your earth (your 
body) is filled with his glory — the glory that 
radiates from the immaculate soul of Jesus Je- 
hovah. He is the visibility of the Absolute God 
to your soul. He is the Door to eternal life, now. 
Draw his glory into your soul, for He is the res- 
urrection and the life everlasting within your soul. 
His essence and substance are the life of your 
soul. The Christ Child slumbers within your 
virgin soul. Let the Spirit bring forth the im- 
maculate conception within you, and His presence 
will fill your soul with immortal bliss, undying 
love. His glorious consciousness will grow so 
great within your soul that you will transcend the 
limitations of mortal knowing and will feel and 
know as the angels feel and know, with the full 
intuition of the omniscient Mind of God. You 
will partake of the manna of heaven. Your soul 
will be so thrilled and satisfied with the grand 
passion of its Lord — of love in the sublime de- 



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gree — that there will be no craving for mortal 
affection. You will be a radiant love power al- 
ways giving love to souls, but never seeking it in 
return. The inexhaustible riches of Christ's love 
will be your satisfaction and eternal peace. " Ye 
are complete in Him." 



PRAY WITHOUT CEASING 

How is realization of the living Truth to be 
gained? By unceasing devotion to God through 
daily study of divine truth, daily prayer for more 
of the Spirit in heart and mind, united to mental 
affirmation of the love and wisdom and perfection 
in the soul. 

You are in this world for no other purpose than 
the development and expression of your soul. 
Through fulfilling this necessity of your being you 
will find enduring rest and satisfaction, and in no 
other way. If you turn all your attention to 
earthly things and do not develop your immortal 
soul, when you leave this world you will not find 
enjoyment in the realms of light. As a spirit you 
will feel no attraction toward the realms where 
congregate the artists, musicians, scientists, or wise 
men of heaven. Unless while here you develop 
a love for divine wisdom and express love in help- 
ing others, the social life of the heavenly spheres 
will prove monotonous to you, because there is no 
happiness there any more than here except in the 
activity of the higher faculties of the mind and 
soul. So if your love is for earthly things and af- 
fairs, entirely, if your treasure is in this world, 
your heart will be here and you will remain in the 
atmosphere of earth as an earth-bound spirit, 
hovering about the marts of trade, the home, the 

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club, or the saloon — according to your quality — 
in an unsettled state of weary search for the peace 
which earth-life cannot give you. You may so 
strongly desire to be back in the ways of the world 
that you will be willing to lose your memory for 
a human life-time and become incarnate again in 
human form — just because you have no affinity 
for the higher, spiritual life. Neither God nor 
spirit will deter you from incarnating in a baby 
form and again going through this grade of Life's 
school, if you desire to do so. You may incarnate 
a number of times if you choose until you tire of 
earthly experiences or have accomplished the full 
measure of your desire through reincarnating. 

Each one is a law unto himself in this respect. 
God leaves our wills free, and we are always free 
to choose any path of progression that suits us 
best. There is no compulsion but that of unedu- 
cated desire; no soul or spiritual being is com- 
pelled to reincarnate against its will or desire. 

People in the world live and talk on the negative 
or nothing side of life. The frivolity and at- 
tractiveness of mortal life is not endowed with 
eternal life and joy. It is all transient and as far 
as we are concerned must come to an end. When 
minds live in the contemplation of material things 
apart from spiritual realities, they lose hold of 
their soul life and come to nothing — they die 
sooner than would be necessary if they kept in 
tune with the life of God, within and above the 
soul. 

We need to magnetize our minds by daily con- 
tact with the central dynamo of Life in order to 



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partake of the divine vitality that will enable us 
to overcome sickness and premature death. 

Forms die when they can no longer be made to 
serve the purpose of Life. Those who keep their 
conversation and their thoughts in the light of 
heaven become immortalized while here ; they live 
in heaven while here, and when they tire of phys- 
ical activities they lay aside their physical forms 
as they would lay aside a garment no longer of 
use. To them the physical and spiritual worlds 
have become blended into one great reality in 
which they live eternally, whether here or there as 
to visible presence. 

New Thought students, in the discovery of the 
power of mental affirmation, are apt to under-es- 
timate the value of prayer. This comes from a 
mistaken belief that the soul is all-sufficient in it- 
self. The individual soul is as dependent upon 
God and the invisible inhabitants of the spiritual 
realms all about and above us for its sustenance, 
strength, and proper development as the person- 
ality is dependent upon mortal teachers and par- 
ents for its care and education, as well as upon the 
farm and the store for its supplies. 

Some have a vague idea of God as a principle, 
capable of thinking without a mind, of acting 
without the use of form; a formless energy that 
is watching about everywhere ready to do every 
one a good turn without being asked. Remember 
that the law of cause and effect operates with the 
same undeviating exactitude in the spiritual realms 
as in this world. If you want to gain any effect, 
to heal a disease, to overcome a habit, you must 
start into activity a cause equal to that effect. 



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The exalted consciousness of Divinity — God 
— does not come into contact with material things, 
or with mortal minds, except through the media- 
tion of souls. God has evolved souls to do his 
will. Souls are individualized activities of God. 
Souls are the eyes, ears, and hands of God. Souls 
that have awakened to the inner consciousness of 
God feel the movement of his Spirit, and through 
the impulse of that inner Will of wisdom and 
mercy they work from the spiritual side of life to 
fulfill the prayers of humanity. 

We are co-workers with God in the manifesta- 
tion of his Will and Wisdom. God needs us ! 
He is as dependent upon us to act for Him as we 
are dependent upon Him for the power to act. 
He is our Power to, act. We, incarnate, are de- 
pendent upon our elder brothers and sisters in the 
spiritual world for many of the blessings of health 
and prosperity which we experience in this life. 
By prayer to the Father or to the Christ we set in 
motion an intelligent power which communicates 
our desire to the proper department of the divine 
Mind, and when the desire is sufficiently strong or 
has grown to sufficient strength through continual 
prayer, it furnishes a basis of mental energy 
through which divine intelligence may operate to 
bring results. 

If we do not pray to the Divine for what we 
need we do not make our desires known in heaven. 
All desires are prayers, and all desires bring re- 
sults equal to their strength and intelligence. If 
we have a desire, that desire goes out from our 
mind and works on other minds to bring results. 



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It does not rise above the plane of thought in 
which it is generated. It grows stronger as it is 
held daily; its force and ability is increased by 
added desire. But it works single-handed. A 
desire uttered in prayer to God gains the coopera- 
tion of spiritual beings. Prayer sets in motion 
the Providence of God, which is an organized 
power composed of multitudes of mighty spiritual 
beings. 

Every prayer qualified by love and aspiration 
creates a thought-form which becomes visible to 
the angels of God, and his Spirit of wisdom works 
through them to bring about conditions for the an- 
swering of the prayer. The many limitations to 
the answering of a prayer cannot always be over- 
come immediately, and so the prayer must be per- 
sisted in until the forces of heaven and earth are 
able to combine to bring its fulfillment. If 
through lack of faith or discouragement the prayer 
ceases, cooperation from the heavenly realms will 
soon cease, because the angels are dependent upon 
human minds for the thought force necessary to 
them if they would operate in the mind of the 
world. Jesus, understanding this, gave the par- 
ables in the eleventh and eighteenth chapters of 
Luke, showing his disciples how, by unceasing 
prayer, they should keep knocking at the heavenly 
gates of supply. 

During the Civil war the prisoners in Ander- 
sonville prison were dependent upon the filthy and 
unwholesome water of a little creek that passed 
within the stockade. They prayed to God for 
clean water to drink, and from under a tree stump 



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there gushed a spring of fresh water. The 
prayers of many minds generated a mental power 
which was used by powers of the spiritual world to 
help that hidden spring of water to burst forth 
from the bowels of the earth. The powers of 
God have no conscious activity on this plane ex- 
cept through the mental organizations of persons 
on this plane. They require our faith and co- 
operation. 

In the seventies, Minnesota was over-run by 
locusts. After every other means had failed the 
Governor called for the prayers of the whole state 
that divine aid be invoked for the saving of the 
crops. The little pests became extinct on the day 
following the day of prayer. 

In England a large institution for boys was kept 
supplied with food and funds by the prayers of 
its founder, George Muller. He did not even 
ask people for what he needed, and his expenses 
were very large, there being several hundred 
mouths to feed. A quarterly report was sent out 
to those interested, and from all over the world 
money and supplies kept pouring in according to 
the need. His prayers brought the aid of the or- 
ganized intelligences of heaven, and those who 
had means in abundance were influenced to give 
by the invisible agencies which his prayers in- 
voked. 

The world is again waking up to the realization 
of the power of the prayer-answering God. Even 
the most conservative orthodox journals are giv- 
ing space to those who write of the health, the 
prosperity, and the general spiritual good that 



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has come in answer to prayer. Prayer serves a 
purpose that simple desire, affirmation, or sugges- 
tion cannot serve, although these methods are very 
necessary in the proper development of the mind 
and soul. 

For many years my life seemed a downright 
failure. I could not make a success of anything. 
I was sick in body and morbid in mind. I lacked 
individuality. But I learned of the Way, the 
Truth, and the Life. I learned how to commune 
with God. Through learning how to pray I 
found the power in God that gave me individuality. 
Through prayer I drew into myself that essence 
of the Spirit which made me a conquering man. 
Through prayer my soul reached out to its Father 
and received its daily bread from his living Word 
of everlasting Life. My soul drew on the Spirit 
and became aflame with the divine glory. It was 
born again of the water of Truth and of the Holy 
Spirit. 

A material illustration may make more clear the 
value of prayer to a human soul. There hangs 
from the ceiling a live wire charged with the posi- 
tive electric current from a mighty dynamo. In 
my hands I hold the negative wire. I reach up 
and touch this negative wire to the positive wire, 
when immediately there is a blinding flash of elec- 
tric light. Thus it is that man is glorified. God 
is the positive Mind, the positive Spirit. Man is 
the negative mind, the negative spirit. During 
prayer the mind of man reaches out (and within) 
toward the positive Mind of God, toward the 
Mind that is full of the realized power generated 



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in the dynamo of omnipotent Love. When the 
prayer becomes sincere and intense with love and 
devotion there occurs that wondrous meeting of 
the human and the Divine, the negative and the 
positive, and the flash of immortal glory fills the 
negative mind with quickening power that is a 
source of life and health. 

Many have felt in greater or less degree this 
touch of the Divine; it was a time of conversion 
with them, and they look back to it with tender 
recollection, and look forward to the future state 
of bliss in heaven as a continuous feast of spiritual 
communion like that one glorious experience of 
the past. But why wait for heaven when heaven 
waits for you? Such communion may be a daily 
fact of your experience, and its realization should 
be sought for daily. Let it become the dominant 
purpose of your life to grow spiritual, to manifest 
God. Gradually turn all your desires in that di- 
rection and compel all your destiny to work to that 
end. Do not let any apparently limiting condi- 
tion thwart your purpose. By prayer you may 
have the cooperation of God, and working with 
God as your faith and strength all things are 
possible; you can become invincible. All Power 
wills your permanent success. 

Pray to God and his Christ and your prayer 
will reach the most exalted plane of power, draw- 
ing to you the blessings of the highest and holiest 
souls in heaven. 

In the prayer which follows the prayerful atti- 
tude is united with the affirmation of truth, mak- 
ing a very powerful combination. 



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Mother-Father God! I am a soul-child 
born from the blending of Thy divine attri- 
butes. Satisfy me with Thy love. In my soul 
are cradled the masculine and feminine potencies 
of Divinity. My soul is an organization of Thy 
love, wisdom and power; an image of all Thy 
qualities; a Seed of Divinity. Through living in 
the glorious sunshine of Thy love, all these won- 
derful soul potencies are becoming quickened. 
Glorify me with the illumination of Thy loving 
presence, that I also may glorify Thee. 

1 am a perfect soul born from Thy perfect na- 
ture, but I need to live in the sunshine of Thy 
Spirit, that the power within may grow and de- 
velop as a seed of God sown in an earthly body. 

I need to commune with Thee consciously, 
thinking the thoughts of Thy Mind and feeling the 
emotions of Thy great Heart of Love in order 
that this negative earth-mind and body may be- 
come fertilized with Thy life, making a perfect 
soil for the expansion of the soul seed of power 
within. 

My soul is illuminating and healing this mind 
and body as I commune with Thy Spirit. My 
soul becomes more glorious as I exercise Thy love 
and wisdom. I am Thy soul-son. The glory 
that transfigured the mortal flesh of Jesus is in 
my soul and will now transform my character and 
transfigure my flesh as I inbreathe Thy Holy Spirit 
by high desires and holy aspirations. I am com- 
plete and satisfied in Thee. I am Thy immortal 
son. Thine is the power and glory forever. 
Amen. 



A HEALING PRAYER 

Living Father! 

I recognize that my life is one with Thy un- 
limited life and power. 

Thy constructive Mind is within me, building 
my mind and body in strength and perfection. 

I open my mind to the influx of Thy mighty 
Presence of health and peace. 

Thou art within me a fountain of vitality flow- 
ing into every faculty and organ of my being. 

Thou art God within my nature, and Thy life 
and health have all power to regenerate and heal 
my body. 

I am organizing Thy life and strength into a 
mind and body of health and perfection. 

Thy substance is feeding and restoring every 
part of my body to positive health. 

I praise Thy healing life and intelligence in 
every organ, in every nerve, in every atom of 
my flesh. 

I praise Thy glorious wisdom which is illu- 
minating my soul and purifying my mind of every 
limiting thought. 

I praise Thy tender, healing Love which invig- 
orates and upholds me and dissolves away all fear. 

O Living Father, this is Thy holy temple, 

make it a perfect dwelling place from which shall 

radiate Thy healing love and wisdom to all Thy 

children. 

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Father, glorify me with Thy healing power, 
that I also may glorify Thee. 

Read this prayer over a few times, trying to 
realize every word within your being, and then 
sit quietly with eyes closed while the Spirit of the 
Father flows through your nature, fulfilling your 
desire. 



TO OVERCOME ANTAGONISM 

Loving Father! 

Bless her mind with Thy wonderful love which 
dissolves away all vindictive feelings. Hold her 
personality in the glowing presence of Thy har- 
monizing love until all her antagonistic feelings 
are melted down. 

Father, melt from her heart all hateful 
thoughts and feelings. I bless her with Thy love 
which overcomes all her feelings against me. I 
feel so great a love flowing from Thy presence 
within my soul that when she thinks of me she is 
disarmed and cannot feel aught but love. 

1 bless all my world, visible and invisible, with 
Thy harmonizing love. All is Love. 



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HEALING LOVE 

Divine Father! 

I bless all the intelligent centers in my body 
with Thy healing love. From my awakening 
soul I pour healing love into every part of my 
body. 

Thy love streams out from the presence of 
Jesus Jehovah filled with the power to heal all 
my flesh, and it holds me in eternal peace. Thy 
love is my mighty protection. 

I praise Thy Spirit of Love. 






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O THOU ETERNAL SPIRIT OF WISDOM 

Awaken and inspire my soul with Thy Divine 
Breath. Let my mind become illumined with Thy 
glory. Inspire all my thoughts with the pure 
light of Thy Omniscient Mind. 

I pray with all the sincerity of my mind for 
the Spirit that shall quicken my intuition and lead 
me into the highest, holiest understanding of the 
mysteries of Thy Divine Life. 

Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah, in the path 
of light and love. With all the fervor of my 
emotional nature I desire Thy wisdom. Inspire 
my judgment and increase my power of discrim- 
ination. Help me to live like Jesus Christ under 
the inspiration of Thy Holy Wisdom-Power, that 
the power of Thy Spirit may become manifest 
through my mind and body, for the increase of 
Thy Glory in the souls of humanity. 

Thine be the honor and glory through time' and 
eternity. Amen. 



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THE DISCIPLES' PRAYER 

Our Father! 

Father of all souls, who art in the pure, heav- 
enly state within all souls, who art the Soul of 
souls — hallowed be Thy Name of Love. 

Thy wisdom and love are revealed in the peace- 
ful purity and in the grace and perfection of our 
souls. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in 
mind and body as it is done in our souls. 

May Thy kingdom of love and justice become 
manifest to all beings in human and animal forms ; 
may Thy almighty Will, which bringeth peace 
and plenty, be done on earth as it is done in heav- 
enly realms. 

Give us this day our daily bread; supply all 
our necessities and satisfy all our desires from the 
goodness of Thy omnipresent Mind. Feed us 
spiritually with the Bread of Life, that we may 
grow strong in the wisdom and dominion of Thy 
Spirit. 

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those 
who trespass against us. 

Dissolve from us all condemnation and teach 
us to see the angel of Thy Presence in all; inspire 
us with Thy love and compassion for all souls, 
that we may quicken and resurrect the latent good- 
ness and power in souls incarnate. 

Lead us in victory over all temptation, and de- 

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liver us from even the appearance of evil. Let us 
feel the attraction of Thy Spirit leading us to 
freedom from all earthly attractions, that we may 
fulfill the laws of the soul-life as sons of God — 
joint heirs with Christ in the purity and power of 
God. 

We abide with Thee now in the bliss of Being, 
for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the 
glory forever and ever. Amen. 



SERENITY 

I am poised in the majestic Will of the Almighty. 

His mighty will is cleansing me of mortal at- 
tachments and setting me free. All darkness of 
the past is entirely dissolved from my mind, and I 
dwell in the pure peace of eternity. 

My soul is wedded to Jesus Jehovah and I care 
for no one except as I see in him the immortal 
Presence. 

I am living in eternity for eternity, and the 
things of time do not affect me or disturb me. 

It makes no difference to me what people think 
of me, for I am centered in the love of the Lord 
God Almighty. 

Only what He desires for me shall come to me. 

I am surrounded by his mighty, protecting 
Love, which dissolves from me all mortal mental- 
ities. 

No evil can come nigh my dwelling-place be- 
cause I put my trust in Him. 

All affections and desires of the past that were 
not for the truth are cast into the ocean of ob- 
livion. 



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TRUST 

My soul is attuned to the merciful love of Jesus 
Jehovah, and all my nature is harmonized and 
healed by his mighty Presence. 

He is the God of my life, and I allow Him to 
rule and regulate all things in my nature and af- 
fairs. 

I recognize his majestic Will as all-powerful 
and all-sufficient. 

My faith is strong in the power of his Will and 
the wisdom of his Mind, and by faith I am par- 
taking of his wisdom and power. 

All things are now working for the manifesta- 
tion of his goodness and truth. I am a strong 
and powerful expressor of his Love, which creates 
health and harmony in all my life. 

From my soul flows the Fountain of his joyous 
life and strength. 

His omnipotent Will is working for my good 
and for the good of all whom I love, and no mor- 
tal power can hinder his invincible Power. 



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GRATITUDE 

I AM a mighty magnet of love to draw souls to 
Jesus Christ. 

All my affairs are dominated by the Spirit of 
Love, which brings to me abundant prosperity. I 
have faith in the prospering power of God. 

I am strong in the magnetic power of God and 
draw my own to me with unceasing regularity. 

Oh, living Spirit of Eternity, dwelling within 
my soul, I praise thy Holy Presence. I rest in 
thy eternal peace and harmony. I trust to thy un- 
ceasing love and power to bring all good to pass 
in my life. 

I am one with Thee, my Father, and am draw- 
ing closer and closer to the conscious realization 
of thy Presence, which shall dissolve all my fears 
and hold my mind, unwavering and steady, in eter- 
nal peace. 

I praise Thee for the life and strength that I 
now manifest, and I know that I will gain new 
dominion and power day by day, as I walk hand 
in hand with Thee, until all mortal limitations are 
overcome. 

I praise and glorify thy Holy Spirit, and rest 
in conscious unity with Thee through time and 
eternity. Praise his Holy Name ! 



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PEACE 

I affirm my perfect freedom in all lines and on 
all planes. My soul is the power of God and 
has been given the power to heal all the ills of 
my flesh and all the breaks in my environment. 

Jesus Christ will fill in all the broken places in 
my life's path with his love and wisdom and 
power. 

My soul life accepts and knows this power, and 
from henceforth I rest in this power in safety. 
All my surroundings are peaceful. 

The light of heaven shall yet dawn in my life, 
and I shall share in its glory. 

MY SOUL SHALL GAIN THE VICTORY. ALL 

IS good! 



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A CONCEPTION OF GOD 

The basis of all systems of religious thought is 
God. Every new philosophy is founded on a 
new conception of this one primal Power. The 
many seekers after God are like the blind men 
who tried by groping to get a conception of an 
elephant. One got hold of the tail, and to him 
the elephant was like a rope. To the one who 
found the trunk, the elephant was like a snake. 
Running against his broad side, another was cer- 
tain that the elephant was like a wall. And from 
the shape of a leg the fourth was sure the ele- 
phant was like a tree. In like manner all the 
limited conceptions of God are but partial views 
of the Infinite and Eternal One. We might as 
well accept the fact to start with that from the 
very meaning of the words infinite and eternal, 
which are used as descriptive of Deity, God is 
nothing less than the Whole. We must see that 
God is at least as great as the vast universe; and, 
if we concede that all is a manifestation of one 
Power, there will be room in our idea of God for 
all the expansion that will come to our minds 
through growth in knowledge. 

The Hindu Vedantists postulated an abstract, 
impersonal Being that was beyond all ideas of 
consciousness, neither conscious nor unconscious, 
so immutable that it was incapable of generating 
a universe, and so absolutely quiescent and peace- 

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ful that in it there was no thought or desire or 
activity of any kind. After formulating this en- 
tirely incomprehensible idea of God, they were led 
to think that this absolute Being was the only 
reality and the only truth; that all else was noth- 
ing — unreal and illusive ; that all created things 
were the " figments of a fictitious illusion " ; that 
both the internal and external order of things, the 
earths and earthly beings, and the heavenly states 
with their countless hosts were all a vast hypno- 
tism; an endless succession of dreams that were 
to be escaped by absorption into the abstract state 
of the Eternal. To escape the joys of life as 
well as the sorrows was the aim of every true 
aspirant for emancipation from the bondage of ex- 
istence, and all effort was to the end of sublimiz- 
ing the mind to the degree that the individuality 
would lose itself into the one great Essence of 
existence. 

But the pendulum of thought has now swung 
to the opposite extreme, and humanity at present 
is not seeking to lose its individuality, but to build 
it stronger; not desiring to escape existence, but 
to enter more deeply into it. The conquering 
and overcoming activities of the Western races 
are the expression of a divine method, in that they 
are conducive to the development of great in- 
dividualities. There was truth in the Hindu ideas 
of God and in their methods of spiritual worship, 
but it was not the whole truth; just as there is 
partial truth in the ideas of God prevalent in 
the orthodox world. The Hindu system of 
thought vividly grasped the soul of the universe 



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as the supreme reality, but denied that there was 
any use for the mind and body of the universe ; so 
all effort was toward the reduction of the human 
mind and body to a state of pure, resistless quies- 
cence. The occidental mind is infatuated with 
the material side of existence, and it is only begin- 
ning to comprehend or acknowledge that the phys- 
ical universe has a subjective or mental side. 
Hence very little attention has been given to the 
development of aught but the faculties or qualities 
that deal with manifested forces. 

The soul has not been considered worthy of any 
attention, nor is it thought by many to be any- 
thing more than a name; in fact, so strong is the 
materialistic spirit of the age that even among 
certain metaphysicians who have formulated the 
laws of the invisible but omniactive Mind, there 
is a strong repugnance to the idea that the Di- 
vine Soul of the Whole is individualized in man. 
Some think that, so far as the laws of mind will 
serve the personal ego in conquering the forces 
that have to be contented with in fulfilling the 
needs of mortal existence, so far, only, are they 
good. But the pendulum of racial development 
will find its poise between these two extremes, and 
the philosophy of the East and of the West will 
be united for the production of a race of beings 
who, while powerful in individuality and ability 
to surmount every limitation of negative existence, 
will nevertheless realize their full power and wis- 
dom through the acknowledgment and expression 
of the higher potencies, qualities, and attributes 
of the Soul life of God. 



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We are rapidly outgrowing the belief in evil 
that has shrouded the mind of the world for so 
many ages. To the oriental mind all existence 
was a form of evil, even to the highest states of 
manifested life in the heavenly spheres. All was 
looked upon as limitation and bondage, and only 
in the Absolute was there enduring rest from the 
bondage to everlasting transmigration and change. 
To be sure, there was the greater evil of the de- 
luded souls sunk in sin and misery, with no aspira- 
tion for emancipation; and the lesser evil of liv- 
ing for the welfare of others; but at its best life 
was criticised and condemned as evil, and escape 
from life was the only good. With all their meta- 
physical subtlety, the dark shadows of evil cov- 
ered their minds and limited their perception of 
Truth. 

Later religionists placed humanity in the midst 
of two great contending forces of Good and Evil, 
but the good was much nearer and more easily 
and quickly realized than in the most ancient 
philosophies, for it was not considered necessary 
to go through a number of incarnations as in the 
Hindu system of thought before the ties of at- 
tachment could be cut and the good attained. 
One had only to wage the fierce fight against evil 
in the present, to find a pleasant future secure in 
the arms of paradise for all eternity. And now 
so close are we growing to the vision of the One 
who is too pure to behold iniquity, that we no 
longer look upon existence as evil even in greater 
or less degrees, nor do we see in the universe of 
God the opposing forces of Good and Evil. 



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But we rejoice in the knowledge that it is all 
good; it is less good and greater good; good un- 
developed and good developed; but from its worst 
to its best aspect, from the lowest to the highest 
degree and form of manifestation, it is all good. 

We now comprehend the great truth that we 
stand in the midst of a growing, evolving uni- 
verse, and in and behind it all are manifesting the 
purpose and the will of the omnipotent Soul. 
Whether we stand on a planet whose humanity- 
is young in the expression of the divinity latent 
within it, or on a planet older and wiser and 
more fully rounded out in the individualization and 
expression of the omniscient intelligence of God, 
it is all good. The young planet with its warring, 
savage humanity, and the older planet with its hu- 
manity of peaceful, godlike beings, are alike 
formed from the universal substance of God. 
The love of the Infinite One is shed as graciously 
upon the warring tribes of cannibals filled with 
hatred and cruelty, as upon the angelic beings ra- 
diant with the consciousness of Divinity, for the 
patient love of the Eternal is wise with the know- 
ing that all is its own evolving substance, preg- 
nant with the infinite life that shall awaken, 
during the endless evolutions of time, the intelli- 
gence of each atom, as of each mind, to the full- 
est realization of the intelligence and purpose of 
the ALL. 

We may look upon the cosmos as the manifes- 
tation of an almighty battery of energy, a divine, 
conscious battery, so that the duality of " matter 
and energy " created by materialistic science will 



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be resolved into the conception of one omnipotent 
Intelligence, expressing itself through the posi- 
tive and negative poles of universal Substance. 
The objective universe of so-called matter is the 
negative aspect of the one universal Substance, 
the negative pole of the great mental battery, for 
all Substance is capable of endless development 
in intelligence; the subjective realms and states of 
existence are this same Substance in a more refined 
degree of expression, in a more positive and in- 
telligent state of manifestation. In and around 
the negative realms and worlds are the individual- 
izations of the one Substance less developed in in- 
telligence, while farther up in the states and con- 
ditions of sublimated and spiritualized existence 
are the beings who have grown positive with the 
positiveness that inheres in the inmost and all- 
comprehending sphere of omnipotent, omniscient 
and omnipresent Consciousness, the Soul of the 
vast whole — God. 

Our minds expand and thrill with the sublime 
conception of the magnitude and mightiness of 
the God of the universe, an individualized and for- 
ever individualizing expression of the eternal and 
unmanifest, whose negative body — the physical 
universe — is infused and sustained by his positive 
mind-body — the spiritual universe. The Whole 
is forever developing in intelligence and perfec- 
tion as its great Soul comes more and more into 
expression, infusing the positive and negative poles 
of its body with more of life, love, and wisdom, 
and manifesting in each succeeding cycle of pro- 
gression more of the perfect grace and power that 
inhere in the Soul. 



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Our hope enlarges and our faith grows sure 
of the possibilities of our own unfoldment, for we 
see that God has individualized Himself as the 
Whole, and the Whole is forever developing its 
power of expressing Divinity. As the positive 
Mind of God grows more positive, it infuses its 
positive intelligence into the negative body of ex- 
istence, so that negative substance continually 
grows more intelligent. And through this un- 
ceasing process of individualization each being, as 
an epitome of the Whole, is polarizing the intelli- 
gence and power and substance of God toward the 
development and expression of a more positive 
and enduring individuality. 

We are each one an individualized soul, being 
polarized and organized from the love and wis- 
dom and power of the Soul of God, and each in- 
dividual soul has organized a positive and nega- 
tive pole of mental and physical energies that are 
drawing constantly from the positive and nega- 
tive poles of the mind and body of God. So it 
is evident that as individualization is a law of all 
life, subjective as well as objective, all beings that 
ever evolved from the bosom of Divinity still con- 
tinue and will ever continue to progress in Divin- 
ity through the various stages of human, angelic, 
and archangelic being. It does not take much 
imagination to see the supernatural universe filled 
with the myriads of beings that have lived in hu- 
man form, and to see perpetuated in sublimer 
form the trees and flowers and all the beauties of 
earthly scenery on a grander and more varied 
scale. And we can imagine the older, wiser, and 



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more powerful souls in the position of gods and 
goddesses, as radiant suns of spiritual life and 
love to the less developed souls attracted to them 
and their kingdoms for wisdom and love, the ap- 
propriation of which will give them greater 
growth and stronger powers for spiritual ex- 
pression. 

With what exalted emotions we contemplate the 
idea of these spheres of spiritual beings, all work- 
ing in harmony and obedient to the law of love 
and life, and seeking to make their realizations 
of benefit to those less developed; so that each 
planet is surrounded by its mental and spiritual 
worlds of living beings, who appropriate the 
Light from higher states of Mind and bring it 
into the lower states — all working as a constant 
blessing and upliftment to incarnate humanity. 
In this truth we have the explanation of the teach- 
ing in regard to all the lords, saviors, gods, an- 
gels, and spiritual entities v of the past. There 
has been truth in all teachings that have been 
wafted to earth from the heavens above for the 
spiritualization and education of humanity, and 
our system of thought must be large enough to 
embrace all the gods and deities of the past as 
well as the discoveries of modern scientific re- 
search, for in the Whole there is that which will 
satisfy every human emotion and desire. 

Those who long for absorption into the Abso- 
lute, as well as those who wish to enter Nirvana 
with Buddha, may work out their desire to their 
own satisfaction, without limiting the good of any. 
Those who pray to the gods will find the gods they 



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pray to and plenty more, and those who worship 
as their Savior, Jesus Christ, will find Him Lord 
of lords, and King of kings in this solar system; 
and all who delight in the expansion and develop- 
ment of their individuality will find boundless pos- 
sibilities for growth and progression throughout 
eternity. 



THE GOD-MAN 

Man is the highest expression of God, and he 
can evolve to a higher type of being through the 
understanding and recognition of the truth that 
he is the Mind of God through and through, from 
soul to physical atoms. 

Man is personifying as much of God as he real- 
izes; manifesting the life and intelligence that he 
has appropriated from the universal Source. 

The God-Man is conscious that his substance 
and life is God. His mind and body have been 
educated to that degree of divine consciousness 
where he can truly realize and affirm : " I and 
my Father are one.'' He has polarized so much 
of the infinite Intelligence into his brain, and edu- 
cated the cells of his body to express so much of 
life and intelligence, that every part of his be- 
ing is positive God-Mind, developed from nega- 
tive mind into a consciousness of power and do- 
minion that commands the respect and obedience 
of all negative and undeveloped forms of mind. 
He is the temple of the living God, and God lives 
in and glorifies his entire nature. 

The negative conditions of disease and death 
find no place within his organism, for each atom 
has become positive with conscious life; the latent 
healing power resident within each living cell of 
tissue, which is a certain manifestation of life and 

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spirit, has evolved until the whole body expresses 
the healing Spirit of God. 

There is no craving for the gratification of the 
senses or longing for the companionship of any 
being or beings, for the soul has awakened to 
conscious unity with the bliss of eternal Being, 
and realizes that it is an organized expression of 
the masculine and feminine principles of the di- 
vine Mind, a complete whole within itself. Hav- 
ing educated the sense mind up to its own plane, 
it is able to hold in equilibrium the magnetic and 
electric forces of the human battery, and so sat- 
isfy the nature with divine peace and harmony. 

The Christ-mind is the mighty key to this spir- 
itualized nature, the vital tone to which every 
atom of his body is attuned, and his life is radiant 
with celestial melody as it vibrates throughout 
the tiny cell-spheres filled with universal life and 
love. 

This is the joyful sound, so free from fear or care, 
It springeth forth with joyous bound all through the 
etheric air. 

The God-Man lives in the opulence of omni- 
present Love, and when he retires from the 
world for divine communion, he is permeated with 
its supreme glory, which transfigures him and 
holds him in the ecstasy of immortality. He is 
that Love individualized, and is filled with the 
eternal energy of giving and receiving. He is a 
perpetual spring, for from his heart and soul life 
there emanates the blessing of universal love to 
all; from his mind flow the illuminated thoughts 



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of truth, filled with freeing, healing grace for hu- 
manity; his lips speak forth the words of ever- 
lasting life and joy and his hands impart the heal- 
ing touch. 

Through his intuition and acquired knowledge, 
he furnishes to his associates valuable and useful 
information; the tone of his voice interests and 
impresses those with whom he comes in contact; 
and through the truth which dwells in his own 
life he is able to give to others the pearl of great 
price. He is constantly receiving and constantly 
giving. His friends for whom and with whom he 
is working receive with him from the one living, 
invisible Source, whose center is everywhere. 

Knowing truly how to receive and how to give, 
how to attract and how to express, he lives in 
opulence, for he is complying with the law of di- 
vine circulation that fills his emptiness from a lim- 
itless store. 

He lives in the understanding of his union with 
the inexhaustible Source of all, the inexhaustible 
productiveness, the supreme Love which is all-suffi- 
cient in all places. 

Having but one great desire, the healing, 
awakening, and freeing of God's beloved, he is 
in tune with the mighty purpose of God, which 
gives him a power and wisdom that penetrate to 
the root cause of all manifestations. All forces 
in the universe conspire to carry out his will, and 
success crowns his efforts with perfect accomplish- 
ment. 

The limitations of matter have disappeared 
from the consciousness of the God-man, for his 



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pure penetration into the essence of things has 
resolved all the different and varied forms of 
manifestation into the one responsive substance, 
which obeys his will because he has entered into 
the Consciousness that is the essence of all sub- 
stances. From this plane of causation he can 
move the interior springs of all lives, and as an 
embodiment of God he causes all things to con- 
form to his mighty purpose. 

This divine Man, standing in the consciousness 
of the real and true, sees all things as they are 
and not as they seem to the eye of uneducated 
sense. To his vision the universe is spread out 
as a limitless sea of intelligent mental forces, a 
vibrating ocean of light and life, glistening in 
every atom with the effulgence of a mighty Intelli- 
gence, and comprehending in its boundless Love 
all the beings who have eyolved from and who 
forever dwell in the breadth, depth, and height of 
its immense activity. 

Seeing that All is Mind, AH is Good, All is 
God, the God-Man is one with all of God and 
God's expressions; there is no limitation to his 
vision or to his knowledge, for he is divine in every 
faculty. He can hear all the vibrative whisper- 
ings of the Good in all the universe, and enjoy the 
blending of his mind with the Mind that fills in- 
finity, thus partaking of divine Omniscience. 

Realizing that he is all Spirit, and that there is 
no law but the Will of God, and that he is him- 
self that Will, whatever he wills will be effected 
through his nature. He can become positive to 
the vibrations of light so that mortal eye can- 






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not see his form, and he can make himself so 
)sitive to the attraction of earth that water will 
em a solid substance to his feet. He can exert 

1 powerful and beneficial sway over other natures 
ho are willing to be influenced by his positive 
ill of goodness and peace, which quickens them 
ith the vitality of Eternity and satisfies their 
)iritual natures with the living Bread of Life. 
Glory to the perfected God-Man, for he is the 
ersonality of the Absolute God. 



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